The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 135
Side by side against the wall there were seven little beds, covered with snow-white counterpanes.
Who acts: seven little beds · What happens: be, cover · To what, where: Side, wall, seven little beds
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: who acts (seven little beds), 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 | Side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 were | obl |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Side | nmod |
| 4 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 wall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wall | det |
| 6 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 were | obl |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 were | expl |
| 8 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 beds | nummod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 beds | amod |
| 11 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 were | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 covered | punct |
| 13 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 beds | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 counterpanes | case |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 white | obl |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 snow | punct |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 counterpanes | amod |
| 18 | counterpanes | counterpane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 covered | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | seven little beds | Side by side | the wall; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against wall=Location | |||
| 2 | cover | participle | seven little beds not said here | with white counterpanes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with counterpane=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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