The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 48

The house was splendidly furnished, the walls and ceiling of marble, the furniture of ebony inlaid with gold and precious stones, the floor of such smooth slippery glass that the little fellow tumbled down more than once.

What happens: furnish, inlay, tumble down · To what, where: house, furniture, little fellow

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 furnished	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 furnished	aux:pass
4	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	_	5 furnished	advmod
5	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 walls	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 walls	det
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 furnished	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ceiling	cc
10	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walls	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 marble	case
12	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walls	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 furniture	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 furniture	det
15	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marble	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 ebony	case
17	ebony	ebony	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 furniture	nmod
18	inlaid	inlay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 furniture	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 gold	case
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 inlaid	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stones	cc
22	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stones	amod
23	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 gold	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 floor	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 floor	det
26	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marble	appos
27	of	of	ADP	_	31 glass	case
28	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 glass	amod
29	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 glass	amod
30	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 glass	amod
31	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 floor	nmod
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 once	nsubj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fellow	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fellow	amod
35	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 once	nsubj
36	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 fellow	acl
37	down	down	ADP	_	36 tumbled	compound:prt
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 once	advmod
39	than	than	ADP	_	38 more	fixed
40	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 glass	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 furnished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	furnish	past · passive	the house	the walls of marble and ceiling obl; splendidly property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	inlay	participle	the furniture of ebony not said here	with gold and precious stones	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme
3	tumble down	participle	the little fellow not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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