The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 3

In the centre of the great hall in the castle of Caerleon upon Usk, king Arthur sat on a seat of green rushes, over which was thrown a covering of flame-coloured silk, and a cushion of red satin lay under his elbow.

Who acts: king Arthur, cushion · What happens: sit, throw, lie · To what, where: centre, covering, elbow

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king Arthur, cushion), 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 centre	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 centre	det
3	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hall	amod
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 centre	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 castle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 castle	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hall	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Caerleon	case
12	Caerleon	Caerleon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 castle	nmod
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 Usk	case
14	Usk	Usk	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Caerleon	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 centre	punct
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Arthur	compound
17	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 seat	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 seat	det
21	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 rushes	case
23	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rushes	amod
24	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 seat	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thrown	punct
26	over	over	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 thrown	obl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 thrown	aux:pass
29	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 sat	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 covering	det
31	covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 thrown	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	36 silk	case
33	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 coloured	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 flame	punct
35	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 silk	amod
36	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 covering	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 lay	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 lay	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 cushion	det
40	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lay	nsubj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 satin	case
42	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 satin	amod
43	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cushion	nmod
44	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 thrown	conj
45	under	under	ADP	_	47 elbow	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 elbow	nmod:poss
47	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lay	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	king Arthur		the centre of the great hall in the castle of Caerleon upon Usk	on a seat of green rushes	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location
2	throw	past · passive	king Arthur not said here	a covering of coloured silk			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: covering=Theme over which=Destination
3	lie	past	a cushion of red satin		cushion's elbow		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under elbow=Location

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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