The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 94
In the one Omar had chosen lay a little gold crown and sceptre on a velvet cushion.
Who acts: Omar · What happens: choose, lay · To what, where: one, little gold crown, velvet cushion
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Omar), 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 | _ | 3 one | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 4 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 chosen | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chosen | aux |
| 6 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 one | acl:relcl |
| 7 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 crown | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 crown | amod |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crown | compound |
| 11 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sceptre | cc |
| 13 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crown | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 cushion | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cushion | det |
| 16 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cushion | compound |
| 17 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · perfect | Omar | the one not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | a little gold crown and sceptre | a velvet cushion | in the one | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crown=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: «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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