The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 34

In the centre of the garden was the dwelling-house, shining with glass and precious stones, and in the doorway sat a woman in rich garments, who turned to Elsa’s companion and asked:

Who acts: centre, dwelling house, rich garments · What happens: be, shine, sit, turn, ask · To what, where: dwelling house, woman, doorway, companion

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 (centre, dwelling house, rich garments), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 centre	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 centre	det
3	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 centre	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 house	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
9	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 dwelling	punct
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shining	punct
13	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 house	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 glass	case
15	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shining	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stones	cc
17	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stones	amod
18	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 glass	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sat	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 doorway	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 doorway	det
23	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	obl
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 house	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 woman	det
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 garments	case
28	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 garments	amod
29	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sat	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 turned	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 turned	nsubj
32	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 garments	acl:relcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 companion	case
34	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 companion	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 Elsa	case
36	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 turned	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 asked	cc
38	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 turned	conj
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 house	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the centre of the garden	the dwelling house			tree rules
2	shine	gerund	the dwelling house not said here			with glass and precious stones	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with glass=Theme
3	sit	past	the centre of the garden not said here	a woman	the doorway	in rich garments	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme in doorway=Location
4	turn	past	rich garments		Elsa's companion		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to companion=Trajectory
5	ask speech: ask	past	rich garments not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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