Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 78

Everything was spruce and neat in the cottage: on the table was spread a white cloth, and there were seven little plates, seven little loaves, and seven little glasses with wine in them; and seven knives and forks laid in order; and by the wall stood seven little beds.

Who acts: seven little plates · What happens: be, spread, lay, stand · To what, where: Everything spruce, cottage, white cloth, table, seven knives, order

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven little plates), 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 spruce	compound
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spruce	cop
3	spruce	spruce	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 neat	cc
5	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spruce	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cottage	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cottage	det
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 neat	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 spread	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 table	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 table	det
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spread	obl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 spread	aux:pass
14	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 spruce	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cloth	det
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cloth	amod
17	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spread	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 were	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 were	cc
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 were	expl
21	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spruce	parataxis
22	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 plates	nummod
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 plates	amod
24	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 were	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 loaves	punct
26	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 loaves	nummod
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 loaves	amod
28	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 plates	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 glasses	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 glasses	cc
31	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 glasses	nummod
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 glasses	amod
33	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 plates	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 wine	case
35	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 glasses	nmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 wine	nmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 knives	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 knives	cc
40	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 knives	nummod
41	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spruce	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 forks	cc
43	forks	fork	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 knives	conj
44	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 knives	acl
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 order	case
46	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 laid	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 stood	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 stood	cc
49	by	by	ADP	_	51 wall	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 wall	det
51	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 stood	obl
52	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spruce	conj
53	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	55 beds	nummod
54	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 beds	amod
55	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 stood	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spruce	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Everything spruce and seven knives and forks			tree rules
2	be				the cottage		tree rules
3	spread	past · passive		a white cloth	the table		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: cloth=Theme on table=Destination
4	be	past	seven little plates and seven little loaves and seven little glasses with wine in loaves		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lay	participle		seven knives and forks not said here	order		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in order=Destination
6	stand	past		seven little beds		by the wall	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bed=Theme by wall=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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