The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 6
In its midst was a high seat, overlaid with fine carpets, and into it opened eight doors, each having opposite to it a marble basin.
Who acts: palace, each · What happens: be, overlay, open, have · To what, where: high seat, midst, eight doors, opposite, palace
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, each), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 midst | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 midst | nmod:poss |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seat | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seat | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 seat | det |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seat | amod |
| 7 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 overlaid | punct |
| 9 | overlaid | overlay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 seat | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 carpets | case |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 carpets | amod |
| 12 | carpets | carpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 overlaid | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 opened | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 opened | cc |
| 15 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 17 opened | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 opened | nsubj |
| 17 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seat | parataxis |
| 18 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 doors | nummod |
| 19 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 opened | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 having | punct |
| 21 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 having | nsubj |
| 22 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 doors | acl:relcl |
| 23 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 having | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 having | obl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 basin | det |
| 27 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 basin | amod |
| 28 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 having | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a high seat | palace's midst | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overlay | participle | a high seat not said here | with fine carpets | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | open | past | palace | eight doors | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | each | opposite | palace | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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