The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 43
Inside was a great hall, and in the middle of the hall a throne set with precious stones and a sofa spread with the softest cushions.
Who acts: Inside · What happens: be, spread · To what, where: great hall, sofa
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Inside), 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 | Inside | Inside | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hall | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hall | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hall | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hall | amod |
| 5 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 middle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 middle | det |
| 10 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hall | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hall | det |
| 13 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 middle | nmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 set | det |
| 15 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | compound |
| 16 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hall | parataxis |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 stones | case |
| 18 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stones | amod |
| 19 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 set | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sofa | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sofa | det |
| 22 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | conj |
| 23 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 sofa | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 cushions | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cushions | det |
| 26 | softest | soft | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 cushions | amod |
| 27 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 spread | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Inside | a great hall | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spread | participle | a sofa not said here | with the softest cushions | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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