The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 43

There was a large assortment of rags, the fine ones in one heap, and the coarse ones in another, as they should be.

Who acts: large assortment, possessions · What happens: be · To what, where: coarse ones

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large assortment, possessions), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 assortment	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 assortment	amod
5	assortment	assortment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 rags	case
7	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 assortment	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ones	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ones	det
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rags	appos
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 heap	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 heap	nummod
14	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ones	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ones	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ones	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ones	det
18	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ones	amod
19	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 another	case
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 ones	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 be	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 be	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 be	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 be	aux
26	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a large assortment of rags	the coarse ones in another		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	should	possessions = possession						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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