The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 14
They brought in oak tables, which they spread with silken covers, and placed all sorts of delicious dishes and refreshing drinks on them.
Who acts: lads · What happens: bring, spread, place, refresh, sort · To what, where: oak tables, sorts, drinks, delicious dishes
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lads), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 tables | case |
| 4 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tables | compound |
| 5 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 spread | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 spread | obj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 spread | nsubj |
| 9 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tables | acl:relcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 covers | case |
| 11 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 covers | amod |
| 12 | covers | cover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spread | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 placed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 placed | cc |
| 15 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 sorts | det |
| 17 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 placed | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 dishes | case |
| 19 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dishes | amod |
| 20 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sorts | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 refreshing | cc |
| 22 | refreshing | refresh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 placed | conj |
| 23 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 refreshing | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 refreshing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | lads = lad | oak tables | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | spread | present | lads = lad | oak tables | with silken covers | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Destination with cover=Theme | |||
| 3 | place | past | lads = lad not said here | all sorts of delicious dishes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme | ||||
| 4 | refresh | gerund | lads = lad not said here | drinks | on lads = lad | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus drink=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | sort | delicious dishes | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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