The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 134

In the middle of the room there stood a little table, covered with a white tablecloth, and seven little plates and forks and spoons and knives and tumblers.

What happens: stand, cover · To what, where: little table, middle

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. 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	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 stood	advmod
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 table	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 table	amod
11	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 covered	punct
13	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 stood	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 tablecloth	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tablecloth	det
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tablecloth	amod
17	tablecloth	tablecloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 plates	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 plates	cc
20	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 plates	nummod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 plates	amod
22	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stood	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 forks	cc
24	forks	fork	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 plates	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 spoons	cc
26	spoons	spoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 plates	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 knives	cc
28	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 plates	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tumblers	cc
30	tumblers	tumbler	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 knives	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a little table		the middle of the room; there		seven little plates and forks and spoons and knives and tumblers obl	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent table=Theme in middle=Destination
2	cover	participle						with a white tablecloth	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tablecloth=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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