The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 5

All round the walls of the cavern there were beds cut out of the solid rock, upon which the nuns slept, and in the middle a light was burning.

Who acts: walls, beds, nuns, light · What happens: be, cut out, sleep, burn · To what, where: beds, solid rock, middle

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls, beds, nuns, light), 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	All	all	ADV	_	4 walls	advmod
2	round	round	ADP	_	4 walls	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 walls	det
4	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 beds	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cavern	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cavern	det
7	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walls	nmod
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 beds	cop
10	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 beds	acl
12	out	out	ADP	_	16 rock	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 rock	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rock	det
15	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 rock	amod
16	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cut	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 slept	punct
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 slept	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 nuns	det
21	nuns	nun	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 slept	nsubj
22	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 beds	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 burning	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 burning	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 middle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 middle	det
27	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 burning	obl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 light	det
29	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 burning	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 burning	aux
31	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 slept	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 beds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the walls of the cavern	beds			tree rules
2	cut out	participle	beds not said here	the solid rock			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector rock=Eventuality
3	sleep	past	the nuns			upon beds	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	burn	past · progressive	a light		the middle		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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