The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 54
The aspens were cut down next morning, and before night the new bed had been placed in the emperor’s room.
What happens: cut down, place · To what, where: aspens, new bed, room
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: 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 aspens | det |
| 2 | aspens | aspen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cut | aux:pass |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 cut | compound:prt |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 morning | amod |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 placed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 placed | cc |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bed | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bed | amod |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 placed | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 placed | aux:pass |
| 17 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cut | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 room | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 emperor | det |
| 20 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 room | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 emperor | case |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut down | past · passive | the aspens | morning | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | place | past · perfect · passive | the new bed | the emperor's room | night | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in room=Destination |
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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