The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 40

She was lying in a splendid room furnished with royal splendour; the walls were covered with golden flowers on a green ground; the bed was of ivory and the counterpane of velvet, and on a stool near by lay a pair of slippers studded with pearls.

Who acts: maiden, bed · What happens: lie, furnish, cover, be, lay, stud · To what, where: splendid room, walls, green ground, pair, slippers

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, bed), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lying	aux
3	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 room	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 room	det
6	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lying	obl
8	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 room	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 splendour	case
10	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 splendour	amod
11	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 furnished	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 covered	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 walls	det
14	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 covered	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 covered	aux:pass
16	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lying	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 flowers	case
18	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 flowers	amod
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 covered	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 ground	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 ground	det
22	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ground	amod
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 covered	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 ivory	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bed	det
26	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ivory	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ivory	cop
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 ivory	case
29	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lying	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 counterpane	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 counterpane	det
32	counterpane	counterpane	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ivory	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 velvet	case
34	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 counterpane	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 stool	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 stool	cc
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 stool	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 stool	det
39	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lying	parataxis
40	near	near	ADV	_	39 stool	advmod
41	by	by	SCONJ	_	42 lay	mark
42	lay	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 stool	advcl
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 pair	det
44	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lay	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 slippers	case
46	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 pair	nmod
47	studded	stud	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 slippers	acl
48	with	with	ADP	_	49 pearls	case
49	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 studded	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	maiden		a splendid room		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
2	furnish	participle		a splendid room not said here		with royal splendour	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with splendour=Theme
3	cover	past · passive		the walls	a green ground	with golden flowers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with flower=Theme
4	is	past	the bed			of ivory and the counterpane of velvet	tree rules
5	lay	gerund	maiden not said here	a pair of slippers			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Result
6	stud	participle		slippers not said here		with pearls	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=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 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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