The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 62

In the middle of the table was a large wooden bowl, with wooden spoons placed in a circle round it, so that each might dip in his turn.

Who acts: each · What happens: be, place, dip · To what, where: large wooden bowl, middle, wooden spoons, circle

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bowl	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 table	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 table	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bowl	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bowl	det
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bowl	amod
10	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bowl	amod
11	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spoons	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 spoons	case
14	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spoons	amod
15	spoons	spoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bowl	conj
16	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 spoons	acl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 circle	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 circle	det
19	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 placed	obl
20	round	round	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 circle	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dip	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 dip	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 dip	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 dip	aux
27	dip	dip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bowl	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 turn	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 turn	nmod:poss
30	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dip	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 bowl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a large wooden bowl and wooden spoons	the middle of the table		tree rules
2	place	participle		wooden spoons not said here	a circle round circle		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in circle=Destination
3	dip	might	each			in man's turn	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in turn=Attribute

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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