The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 112
First a long table covered with dishes ready laid for the number of persons who would be seated round it, and this flew into the house all by itself.
Who acts: this · What happens: cover, lay, seat, fly · To what, where: long table, persons, house
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 table | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 table | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 table | amod |
| 4 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 table | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 dishes | case |
| 7 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | obl |
| 8 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 covered | xcomp |
| 9 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ready | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 number | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 number | det |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 persons | case |
| 14 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 number | nmod |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 seated | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 seated | aux:pass |
| 18 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 persons | acl:relcl |
| 19 | round | round | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seated | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 flew | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flew | cc |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 flew | nsubj |
| 24 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 table | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flew | obl |
| 28 | all | all | ADV | _ | 30 itself | advmod |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 itself | case |
| 30 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 flew | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 table | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | a long table not said here | with dishes; ready property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dish=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | participle | for the number of persons | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for number=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | seat | would · passive | persons | round number | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 4 | fly | past | this | the house | by house | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location |
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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