The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 149

Everywhere in the halls and corridors cloth was laid down so that no footstep could be heard, and everything was still--very, very still.

Who acts: everything · What happens: lay down, hear, be · To what, where: cloth, footstep

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything), 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	Everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 laid	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 halls	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 halls	det
4	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Everywhere	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 corridors	cc
6	corridors	corridor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 halls	conj
7	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 laid	aux:pass
9	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 laid	compound:prt
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	17 heard	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 heard	mark
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 footstep	det
14	footstep	footstep	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	nsubj:pass
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 heard	aux:pass
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 laid	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 still	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 still	cc
20	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 still	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 still	cop
22	still	still	ADV	_	17 heard	advmod
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 still	punct
24	very	very	ADV	_	27 still	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 still	punct
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 still	advmod
27	still	still	ADV	_	17 heard	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	past · passive		cloth		everywhere property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	hear	could · passive		no footstep	still		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	is	past	everything			still 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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