The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 28

The room was quite empty, and without any ornament, but in the middle stood a large table, with a gorgeous cloth, and on it lay a big open book.

Who acts: room, table · What happens: be, stand, lie · To what, where: large table, middle, big open book

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, table), 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 room	det
2	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 empty	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 empty	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 empty	advmod
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ornament	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ornament	cc
8	without	without	ADP	_	10 ornament	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 ornament	det
10	ornament	ornament	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 empty	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stood	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 stood	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 middle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 middle	det
15	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	obl
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 empty	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 table	det
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 table	amod
19	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cloth	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 cloth	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cloth	det
23	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cloth	amod
24	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lay	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lay	cc
27	on	on	SCONJ	_	29 lay	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lay	nsubj
29	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stood	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 book	det
31	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 book	amod
32	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 book	amod
33	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lay	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 empty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the room			without any ornament; empty property	tree rules
2	stand	past		a large table	the middle	with a gorgeous cloth	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent table=Theme in middle=Destination
3	lie	past	table	a big open book			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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