The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 110

Over against the door was a high seat, and on it lay a giant negro, before whom she salaamed.

Who acts: door, Gul · What happens: be, lie, salaam · To what, where: high seat, giant negro, door

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, Gul), 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	Over	over	ADV	_	4 door	advmod
2	against	against	ADP	_	4 door	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seat	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seat	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 seat	det
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seat	amod
8	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lay	cc
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lay	obl
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seat	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 negro	det
15	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 negro	amod
16	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 whom	punct
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 whom	case
19	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lay	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 salaamed	nsubj
21	salaamed	salaam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 whom	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	the door	a high seat			tree rules
2	lie	past		a giant negro	door	before a high seat	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location negro=Theme
3	salaam	past	Gul				vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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