The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 22

There were carpets everywhere, thick and soft, and of deep rich colours; and the cushions were of silk, and made you sleepy even to look at them; and curious little figures in china were scattered about.

Who acts: carpets, cushions · What happens: be, make, look, scatter · To what, where: you, curious little figures

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carpets, cushions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:1205): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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	carpets	carpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 were	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thick	punct
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 carpets	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 soft	cc
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thick	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 colours	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 colours	cc
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 colours	case
12	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 colours	amod
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 colours	amod
14	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thick	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 silk	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 silk	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cushions	det
18	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 silk	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 silk	cop
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 silk	case
21	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 silk	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 made	obj
26	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 made	xcomp
27	even	even	ADV	_	29 look	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 look	mark
29	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sleepy	advcl
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 look	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 scattered	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 scattered	cc
34	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 figures	amod
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 figures	amod
36	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 scattered	nsubj:pass
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 china	case
38	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 figures	nmod
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 scattered	aux:pass
40	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 were	conj
41	about	about	ADV	_	40 scattered	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	carpets		there	everywhere property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the cushions			of silk	tree rules
3	make	past	the cushions not said here	you		sleepy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
4	look	to-infinitive	the cushions not said here			at cushions = cushion	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
5	scatter	past · passive		curious little figures in china		about property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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