The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 7

There was placed before every one of them a magnificent cover with a case of massive gold, wherein were a spoon, knife, and fork, all of pure gold set with diamonds and rubies.

What happens: place, be · To what, where: spoon

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 placed	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	aux:pass
3	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	6 one	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 one	nmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cover	det
10	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cover	amod
11	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 case	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 case	det
14	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cover	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 gold	case
16	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gold	amod
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 case	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spoon	punct
19	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	22 spoon	advmod
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 spoon	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 spoon	det
22	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cover	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knife	punct
24	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cover	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fork	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fork	cc
27	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 set	punct
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 set	advmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 set	case
31	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 set	amod
32	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 set	compound
33	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fork	appos
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 diamonds	case
35	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 set	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 rubies	cc
37	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 diamonds	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past · passive				there	before every one of fairies		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before one=Destination
2	is a	past		a spoon				wherein property	tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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