The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 128

When the basket was uncovered some beautiful purple figs lay on the top, but underneath there was nothing but horns.

Who acts: beautiful purple figs, nothing · What happens: uncover, lay, be · To what, where: basket, top

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful purple figs, nothing), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 uncovered	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 basket	det
3	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 uncovered	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 uncovered	aux:pass
5	uncovered	uncover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 lay	advcl
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 figs	det
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 figs	amod
8	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 figs	amod
9	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lay	nsubj
10	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 top	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 top	det
13	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lay	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 was	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 was	cc
16	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	18 was	advmod
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lay	advcl
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 was	nsubj
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 horns	cc
21	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 nothing	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	uncover	past · passive		the basket			tree rules
2	lay	present	some beautiful purple figs		the top		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on top=Destination
3	be	past	nothing		there	underneath property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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