The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 58

The fir-tree was placed in a great tub filled with sand, but no one could see that it was a tub, for it was all hung with greenery and stood on a gay carpet.

Who acts: one, sand · What happens: place, fill, see, be, hang, stand · To what, where: fir tree, great tub, tub, sand, gay carpet · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one, sand), 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	4 tree	det
2	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 fir	punct
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 placed	aux:pass
6	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 tub	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tub	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tub	amod
10	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	obl
11	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tub	acl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 sand	case
13	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 filled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 placed	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 tub	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tub	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tub	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tub	det
24	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hung	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 hung	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hung	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hung	aux:pass
29	all	all	ADV	_	30 hung	advmod
30	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 placed	parataxis
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 greenery	case
32	greenery	greenery	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hung	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 stood	cc
34	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hung	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	38 carpet	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 carpet	det
37	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 carpet	amod
38	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stood	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past · passive		the fir tree	a great tub		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tub=Destination
2	fill	participle		a great tub not said here		with sand	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sand=Instrument
3	see	could	no one				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	sand	a tub			tree rules
5	hang	past · passive		sand		with greenery; all property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with greenery=Instrument
6	stand	past			a gay carpet		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on carpet=Location

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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