The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 112

And such a dinner as was laid upon it!

What happens: lay · To what, where: dinner, table

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 laid	cc
2	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	4 dinner	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dinner	det
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laid	nsubj:pass
5	as	as	ADP	_	4 dinner	case
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laid	aux:pass
7	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laid	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past · passive		such dinner		table			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon it=Destination

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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