The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 7
Near the well was a table, on which stood bread made with does’ milk, and a flagon of wine.
Who acts: well, table · What happens: be, stand, make, do · To what, where: table, bread, milk
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (well, table), 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 3 well | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 well | det |
| 3 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 table | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 table | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 table | conj |
| 11 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bread | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 made | obl |
| 14 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stood | ccomp |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 does | punct |
| 16 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 does | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flagon | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flagon | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 flagon | det |
| 20 | flagon | flagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 table | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wine | case |
| 22 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flagon | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 table | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the well | a table and a flagon of wine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a table and a flagon of wine | bread | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | bread not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | do | present | a table and a flagon of wine not said here | milk | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Eventuality |
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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