The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 19

In the smaller pocket on the right side were several round flat pieces of white and red metal, of different sizes.

What happens: be · To what, where: several round flat pieces, smaller pocket

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II. 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 pocket	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pocket	det
3	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 pocket	amod
4	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pieces	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 side	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 side	det
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 side	amod
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pocket	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pieces	cop
10	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pieces	amod
11	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pieces	amod
12	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pieces	amod
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 metal	case
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 metal	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 red	cc
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 white	conj
18	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pieces	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sizes	punct
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 sizes	case
21	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sizes	amod
22	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pieces	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 pieces	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		several round flat pieces and different sizes		the smaller pocket on the right side		of white metal	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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