The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 23

After some moments she began to perceive that the floor was all covered over with clotted blood, on which lay the bodies of several dead women, ranged against the walls.

Who acts: manner · What happens: begin, perceive, cover over, clot, lie, range · To what, where: floor, bodies, several dead women

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manner), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 moments	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 moments	det
3	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 began	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 perceive	mark
7	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 covered	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 floor	det
10	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 covered	aux:pass
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 covered	advmod
13	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 perceive	advcl
14	over	over	ADV	_	13 covered	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 blood	case
16	clotted	clot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 blood	amod
17	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 lay	nsubj
21	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 covered	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bodies	det
23	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lay	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 women	case
25	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 women	amod
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 women	amod
27	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bodies	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ranged	punct
29	ranged	range	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 women	acl
30	against	against	ADP	_	32 walls	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 walls	det
32	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ranged	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	manner		moment		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	perceive	to-infinitive	manner not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	cover over	past · passive		the floor		with clotted blood; all, over property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blood=Theme
4	clot	participle					tree rules
5	lie	past		the bodies of several dead women			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Theme
6	range	participle		several dead women not said here		against the walls	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: 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 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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