The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 56

At last she paused in a room which looked almost like a kitchen, it was so full of pots and pans, but the tables were of mahogany and the sofas and chairs covered with the richest stuffs.

Who acts: Jem, room, kitchen, tables · What happens: pause, look, be, cover · To what, where: last, sofas

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: who acts (Jem, room, kitchen, tables), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 paused	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paused	nsubj
4	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paused	obl
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 room	acl:relcl
10	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 kitchen	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 kitchen	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 kitchen	det
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 full	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 full	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 full	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 full	advmod
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 paused	advcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 pots	case
20	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 full	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pans	cc
22	pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pots	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mahogany	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 mahogany	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tables	det
26	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 mahogany	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 mahogany	cop
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 mahogany	case
29	mahogany	mahogany	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paused	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sofas	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sofas	det
32	sofas	sofa	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 mahogany	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 chairs	cc
34	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sofas	conj
35	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 sofas	acl
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 stuffs	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 stuffs	det
38	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 stuffs	amod
39	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 covered	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pause	past	Jem		last	in a room	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location
2	look	past	a room			like a kitchen	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	kitchen			of pots and pans; full property	tree rules
4	is	past	the tables			of mahogany and the sofas and chairs	tree rules
5	cover	participle		the sofas and chairs not said here		with the richest stuffs	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stuff=Theme

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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