The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 66

The walls were of turquoises, and upon a low couch lay a lovely lady, who seemed to be asleep.

Who acts: walls, lovely lady · What happens: be, lie, seem · To what, where: lovely lady

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls, lovely lady), 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 walls	det
2	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turquoises	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turquoises	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 turquoises	case
5	turquoises	turquoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lay	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lay	cc
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 couch	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 couch	det
10	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 couch	amod
11	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turquoises	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lady	det
14	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lady	amod
15	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lady	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	21 asleep	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 asleep	cop
21	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seemed	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turquoises	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the walls		of turquoises	tree rules
2	lie	past		a lovely lady	upon a low couch	tree rules
3	seem	past	a lovely lady			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive	a lovely lady not said here		asleep 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 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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