The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 77
At the table were placed two chairs, one of silver, the other of gold.
What happens: place · To what, where: two chairs, 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: 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 | _ | 3 table | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 table | det |
| 3 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 placed | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | aux:pass |
| 5 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 chairs | nummod |
| 7 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 placed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 chairs | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 silver | case |
| 11 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 other | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 placed | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 other | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | two chairs | the table | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: chair=Theme at table=Destination |
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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