The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 11

The door of the Bad One’s hut was open, and he saw that the ceiling was supported by great wooden beams, from which hung the bags of gold and the little bridge.

Who acts: door, sight, great wooden beams · What happens: be, see, support, hang · To what, where: ceiling, bags · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, sight, great wooden beams), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 open	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 hut	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 One	det
5	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 One	amod
6	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hut	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 One	case
8	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 door	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 open	cop
10	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 open	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 supported	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ceiling	det
17	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 supported	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 supported	aux:pass
19	supported	support	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 saw	ccomp
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 beams	case
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 beams	amod
22	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 beams	amod
23	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 supported	obl:agent
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hung	punct
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 hung	nsubj
27	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bags	det
29	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hung	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 gold	case
31	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bags	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bridge	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bridge	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bridge	amod
35	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gold	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the door of the Bad One's hut		open property	tree rules
2	see	past	sight			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	support	past · passive	great wooden beams	the ceiling		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
4	hang	past		the bags of gold and the little bridge		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient

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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