Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 43

On the kitchen table there was a large square lump of yellow butter.

What happens: be · To what, where: large square lump, kitchen table

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	4 table	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 table	det
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 table	compound
4	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lump	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lump	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lump	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lump	amod
9	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lump	amod
10	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 butter	case
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 butter	amod
13	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lump	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lump	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a large square lump		the kitchen table		of yellow butter	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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