The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 119

Not a creature was to be seen in the courtyard, and in the furthest corner from the house stood the well, with its two buckets suspended from a pole, just as the fox had described it.

What happens: see, stand, suspend, describe · To what, where: creature, courtyard, well, furthest corner, two buckets, pole

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 creature	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 creature	det
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	aux:pass
5	to	to	PART	_	7 seen	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 seen	aux:pass
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 courtyard	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 courtyard	det
10	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stood	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 corner	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 corner	det
15	furthest	furth	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 corner	amod
16	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stood	obl
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 corner	nmod
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 well	det
22	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stood	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 buckets	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 buckets	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 buckets	nmod:poss
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 buckets	nummod
27	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stood	obl
28	suspended	suspend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 buckets	acl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 pole	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pole	det
31	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 suspended	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 described	punct
33	just	just	ADV	_	38 described	advmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 described	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fox	det
36	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 described	nsubj:pass
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 described	aux
38	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 stood	advcl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 described	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive	a creature	the courtyard		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	stand	past	the well	the furthest corner from the house	with well's two buckets	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent well=Theme in corner=Destination
3	suspend	participle	well's two buckets not said here	a pole		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from pole=Source
4	describe	past · perfect · passive	the fox			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 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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