The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 132

Now they were on the stairs; a little lamp was burning, and on the landing stood the tame crow.

Who acts: eyes, little lamp · What happens: be, burn, stand · To what, where: stairs, tame crow, landing

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, little lamp), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 burning	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stairs	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stairs	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 stairs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stairs	det
6	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Now	ccomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lamp	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lamp	amod
10	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 burning	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 burning	aux
12	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 stood	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stood	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stood	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 landing	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 landing	det
17	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stood	obl
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 crow	det
20	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 crow	amod
21	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stood	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is	past	eyes = eye		the stairs		tree rules
2	burn	past · progressive	a little lamp			now	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	past		the tame crow	the landing		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crow=Theme on landing=Destination

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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