The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 129

Have you been in the storeroom, where cheeses lie on the shelves, and hams hang from the ceiling, where one dances on tallow candles, and where one goes in thin and comes out fat?’

Who acts: you, cheeses, hams, one · What happens: have, be, lie, hang, dance, go · To what, where: storeroom, shelves, ceiling, tallow candles, thin, fat

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cheeses, hams, one), 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	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 storeroom	nsubj
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 storeroom	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 storeroom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 storeroom	det
6	storeroom	storeroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Have	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lie	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 lie	advmod
9	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lie	nsubj
10	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 storeroom	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 shelves	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shelves	det
13	shelves	shelf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lie	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hang	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hang	cc
16	hams	ham	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hang	nsubj
17	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lie	parataxis
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 ceiling	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ceiling	det
20	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hang	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dances	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 dances	advmod
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 dances	nsubj
24	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ceiling	acl:relcl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 candles	case
26	tallow	tallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 candles	compound
27	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dances	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 goes	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 goes	cc
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 goes	advmod
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 goes	nsubj
32	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 hang	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 thin	case
34	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 goes	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 comes	cc
36	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 goes	conj
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 comes	compound:prt
38	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 comes	obl
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 hang	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 storeroom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle	you		the storeroom	tree rules
3	lie	present	cheeses		the shelves	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shelf=Location
4	hang	present	hams		the ceiling	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	dance	present	one		tallow candles	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on candle=Location
6	go	present	one		thin	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in thin=Location
7	come out	present	one not said here	fat		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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