The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 47

In the room was a table spread with delicious food.

What happens: be, spread · To what, where: table, room

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 room	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 room	det
3	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 table	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 table	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 table	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 table	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 food	case
9	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 food	amod
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spread	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 table	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a table		the room			tree rules
2	spread	participle		a table not said here				with delicious food	vn appear-48.1.1 «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 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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