The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 138

In the middle of it, hung on a thick rod of gold, were two beds, shaped like lilies, one all white, in which lay the princess, and the other red, in which Gerda hoped to find Kay.

Who acts: Gerda · What happens: hang, be, shape, lie, hope, find · To what, where: middle, two beds, princess, Kay

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 (Gerda), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hung	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 middle	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hung	punct
7	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 rod	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rod	det
10	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rod	amod
11	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hung	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 gold	case
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rod	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 beds	punct
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 beds	cop
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 beds	nummod
17	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hung	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shaped	punct
19	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 beds	acl
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 lilies	case
21	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 shaped	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 beds	conj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 white	det
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 one	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lay	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 lay	nsubj
29	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hung	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 princess	det
31	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lay	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 red	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 red	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 red	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 red	amod
36	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hung	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 hoped	punct
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 which	case
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 hoped	obl
40	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 hoped	nsubj
41	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hung	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 find	mark
43	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 hoped	xcomp
44	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 find	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	participle			the middle of middle	on a thick rod of gold	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location
2	is a	past		two beds			tree rules
3	shape	participle		two beds not said here		like lilies	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	lie	past		the princess			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location princess=Theme
5	hope	past	Gerda				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here	Kay			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kay=Topic

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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