The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 30

When breakfast was over, he took them into another room, where there was nothing but heaps of gold, and silver, and diamonds, and silks, and satins; and on a table there was lying three sets of crowns: a gold crown was in a silver crown, and that was lying in a copper crown.

Who acts: breakfast, joy, gold crown, silver crown · What happens: be, take, lie · To what, where: lovers, nothing, room, three sets, silver crown, copper crown

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breakfast, joy, gold crown, silver crown), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 over	advmod
2	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 over	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 over	cop
4	over	over	ADV	_	7 took	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 over	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 took	nsubj
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 took	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 room	case
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 room	det
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nothing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 was	advmod
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 nothing	cop
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 took	obj
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 heaps	cc
18	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 nothing	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 gold	case
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heaps	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 silver	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 silver	cc
23	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nothing	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 diamonds	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 diamonds	cc
26	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 took	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 silks	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 silks	cc
29	silks	silk	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 took	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 satins	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 satins	cc
32	satins	satin	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 silks	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 lying	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 was	cc
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 table	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 table	det
37	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 was	obl
38	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 was	expl
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 lying	aux
40	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 took	advcl
41	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 sets	nummod
42	sets	set	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 lying	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 crowns	case
44	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 sets	nmod
45	:	:	PUNCT	_	53 crown	punct
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 crown	det
47	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 crown	compound
48	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 crown	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 crown	cop
50	in	in	ADP	_	53 crown	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 crown	det
52	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 crown	amod
53	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sets	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 lying	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 lying	cc
56	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	58 lying	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 lying	aux
58	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 crown	acl
59	in	in	ADP	_	62 crown	case
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 crown	det
61	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 crown	compound
62	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 lying	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	breakfast			over property	tree rules
2	take	past	joy	lovers = lover		diamonds obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	is a	past		nothing	another room		tree rules
4	lie	past · progressive	joy not said here	three sets of crowns and a silver crown			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location set=Theme
5	is	past	a gold crown		a silver crown		tree rules
6	lie	past · progressive	a silver crown	a silver crown not said here	a copper crown		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crown=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 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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