The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 98

The fingers went the other way across my eyes, and there we were before a castle door, and in we went through a big hall and great rooms all painted in fine green colours, with red and gold bands and ornaments, and the finest carpets and chairs and tables and window curtains, and grand ladies and gentlemen walking about.

Who acts: fingers, we, grand ladies · What happens: go, be, paint, walk · To what, where: other way, eyes, big hall, great rooms, fine green colours

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fingers, we, grand ladies), 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 fingers	det
2	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obj
7	across	across	ADP	_	9 eyes	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 way	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 door	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 door	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 we	expl
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 door	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 door	cop
15	before	before	ADP	_	18 door	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 door	det
17	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 door	compound
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
21	in	in	SCONJ	_	23 went	mark
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
24	through	through	ADP	_	27 hall	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hall	det
26	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hall	amod
27	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 rooms	cc
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 rooms	amod
30	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hall	conj
31	all	all	ADV	_	32 painted	advmod
32	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 rooms	acl
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 colours	case
34	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 colours	amod
35	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 colours	amod
36	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 painted	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 bands	punct
38	with	with	ADP	_	42 bands	case
39	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 bands	amod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 bands	cc
41	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bands	compound
42	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 went	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 ornaments	cc
44	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 bands	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 carpets	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 carpets	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 carpets	det
48	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	49 carpets	amod
49	carpets	carpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 chairs	cc
51	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 carpets	conj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 tables	cc
53	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 carpets	conj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 curtains	cc
55	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 curtains	compound
56	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 carpets	conj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 walking	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 walking	cc
59	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 ladies	amod
60	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 walking	nsubj
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 gentlemen	cc
62	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 ladies	conj
63	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 went	conj
64	about	about	ADV	_	63 walking	advmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the fingers	the other way	my eyes		the finest carpets and chairs and tables and window curtains obl	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	is	past	we			before a castle door		tree rules
3	go	past	we		a big hall and great rooms		with red gold bands and ornaments	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through hall=Initial_Location
4	paint	participle		great rooms not said here	fine green colours		all property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in colour=Destination
5	walk	gerund	grand ladies and gentlemen				about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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