The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 82

But what were her feelings when she perceived that every shelf lay empty and bare before her!

Who acts: Dame, shelf · What happens: be, perceive, lie

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame, shelf), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 were	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 were	nsubj
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 perceived	advcl
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feelings	nmod:poss
5	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 perceived	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 perceived	nsubj
8	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 lay	mark
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 shelf	det
11	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 perceived	advcl
13	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lay	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bare	cc
15	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 empty	conj
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lay	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	be	past				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	perceive	past	Dame			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	lie	past	every shelf	before Dame	empty property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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