The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 113
He sat at the top of a long table covered with flowers and filled with guests.
Who acts: emperor · What happens: sit, cover, fill · To what, where: top, long table
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 top | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 top | det |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 table | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 table | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 table | amod |
| 9 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 top | nmod |
| 10 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 table | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 flowers | case |
| 12 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 covered | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 filled | cc |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 covered | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 guests | case |
| 16 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 filled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | emperor | the top of a long table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at top=Location | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | a long table not said here | with flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | with guests | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with guest=Instrument |
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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