The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 31
There stood a large table, spread with wine and roast meat and a beautiful fish.
What happens: stand, spread, roast · To what, where: large table, meat
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 stood | expl |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 table | det |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 table | amod |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spread | punct |
| 7 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stood | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 wine | case |
| 9 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spread | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 roast | cc |
| 11 | roast | roast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | conj |
| 12 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 roast | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fish | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fish | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fish | amod |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meat | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a large table | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | spread | participle | with wine | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | roast | present | meat and a beautiful fish | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
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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