The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 76
At length they reached a chamber where a table was spread with the most costly dishes.
Who acts: Hundreds · What happens: reach, spread · To what, where: chamber, length, table
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hundreds), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chamber | det |
| 6 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 spread | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 table | det |
| 9 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 spread | aux:pass |
| 11 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 dishes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dishes | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 costly | advmod |
| 15 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dishes | amod |
| 16 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spread | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Hundreds = hundred | a chamber | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent chamber=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 2 | spread | past · passive | a table | with the costly dishes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dish=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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