The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 28

In the room there was a bed, with diamond rings hanging at every loop of the curtains, and everything that was in the room besides astonished him so much that he actually forgot that he was hungry.

Who acts: bed, diamond rings, room, Englishman · What happens: be, hang, astonish, forget · To what, where: room, everything, loop, Englishman

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed, diamond rings, room, Englishman), 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	5 was	obl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bed	det
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rings	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 rings	case
10	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rings	compound
11	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 was	obl
12	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 rings	acl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 loop	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 loop	det
15	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hanging	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 curtains	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 curtains	det
18	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 loop	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 everything	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 everything	cc
21	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 hanging	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 room	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 room	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 room	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 room	det
26	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 everything	acl:relcl
27	besides	besides	ADV	Degree=Sup	28 astonished	advmod
28	astonished	astonish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 room	acl:relcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 astonished	obj
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADV	_	35 forgot	advmod
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 forgot	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 forgot	nsubj
34	actually	actually	ADV	_	35 forgot	advmod
35	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 astonished	conj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 hungry	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 hungry	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 hungry	cop
39	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 forgot	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a bed		the room; there	with diamond rings	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location
2	hang	gerund	diamond rings not said here	everything	every loop of the curtains		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at loop=Location
3	is	past			the room		tree rules
4	astonish	past	the room not said here	Englishman		besides property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	forget	past	Englishman			actually property	tree rules
6	is	past	Englishman			hungry property	tree rules

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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