The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 123
Golden carpets were laid down and the great gates thrown open to welcome the princess.
What happens: lay down, throw, welcome · To what, where: Golden carpets, great gates, princess
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. 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 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 carpets | amod |
| 2 | carpets | carpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laid | aux:pass |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 laid | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thrown | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gates | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gates | amod |
| 9 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 laid | conj |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thrown | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 welcome | mark |
| 13 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thrown | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 welcome | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | past · passive | Golden carpets | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | throw | participle · passive | the great gates | open property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | welcome | to-infinitive | the princess | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |
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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