The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 75
There was placed before every one of them a magnificent cover with a case of massive gold, wherein were a spoon, knife and fork, all of pure gold set with diamonds and rubies.
What happens: place, be · To what, where: spoon
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 placed | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 placed | aux:pass |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 one | nmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cover | det |
| 10 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cover | amod |
| 11 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 case | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 case | det |
| 14 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cover | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gold | case |
| 16 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gold | amod |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 case | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spoon | punct |
| 19 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 spoon | advmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 spoon | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 spoon | det |
| 22 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cover | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 knife | punct |
| 24 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cover | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fork | cc |
| 26 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knife | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 set | punct |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 set | advmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 set | case |
| 30 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 set | amod |
| 31 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 set | compound |
| 32 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cover | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 diamonds | case |
| 34 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 set | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 rubies | cc |
| 36 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 diamonds | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | there | before every one of King | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before one=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a spoon | wherein property | tree rules |
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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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