Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 85

In one of the rooms a dinner was laid out.

What happens: lay out · To what, where: dinner

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 laid	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 rooms	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rooms	det
5	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 laid	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dinner	det
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 laid	aux:pass
9	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 laid	compound:prt
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay out	past · passive		a dinner				in one; of the rooms	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in one=Destination

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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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