The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 31
The table was laid for supper with two golden plates, and golden spoons and forks, and the sideboard was covered with dishes and glasses of crystal set with precious stones.
What happens: lay, cover · To what, where: table, sideboard
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 table | det |
| 2 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laid | aux:pass |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 supper | case |
| 6 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 plates | case |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 plates | nummod |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 plates | amod |
| 10 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laid | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spoons | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spoons | cc |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spoons | amod |
| 14 | spoons | spoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laid | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forks | cc |
| 16 | forks | fork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 spoons | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 covered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 covered | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sideboard | det |
| 20 | sideboard | sideboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 covered | aux:pass |
| 22 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 laid | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 dishes | case |
| 24 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 covered | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 glasses | cc |
| 26 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 dishes | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 set | case |
| 28 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 set | amod |
| 29 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 glasses | nmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 stones | case |
| 31 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 stones | amod |
| 32 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 set | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past · passive | the table | for supper; with two golden plates | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for supper=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | the sideboard | with dishes and glasses of crystal set with precious stones | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dish=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 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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