The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 57

There were the caskets, blue and red, green and yellow, silver and gold; and there in the corner stood a little black casket just like the one her stepsister had brought home.

Who acts: caskets · What happens: be, stand, bring · To what, where: little black casket, corner, stepsister

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (caskets), 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	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 caskets	det
4	caskets	casket	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blue	punct
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 caskets	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 red	cc
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blue	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 green	punct
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blue	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 yellow	cc
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blue	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 silver	punct
14	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caskets	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gold	cc
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caskets	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 there	cc
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 stood	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 corner	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 corner	det
22	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obl
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 casket	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 casket	amod
26	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 casket	amod
27	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obj
28	just	just	ADV	_	31 one	advmod
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 one	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 one	det
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 stood	obl
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 stepsister	nmod:poss
33	stepsister	stepsister	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 brought	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 brought	aux
35	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 one	acl:relcl
36	home	home	ADV	_	35 brought	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	the caskets and silver and gold		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past	the caskets and silver and gold not said here	a little black casket	the corner; there	like the one	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent casket=Theme in corner=Destination
3	bring	past · perfect · passive		girl's stepsister		home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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