The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 8

He immediately lighted a lamp and went down the stairs into a room, the floor whereof was laid with tiles of chinaware, while the roof and walls were of crystal.

Who acts: dream, roof · What happens: light, go down, lay, be · To what, where: lamp, stairs, room

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dream, roof), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree 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	3 lighted	nsubj
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	3 lighted	advmod
3	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lamp	det
5	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lighted	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lighted	conj
8	down	down	ADP	_	10 stairs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stairs	det
10	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 went	obl
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 room	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 room	det
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 floor	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 floor	det
16	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 room	nmod
17	whereof	whereof	ADV	PronType=Int	19 laid	advmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 laid	aux:pass
19	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 floor	acl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 tiles	case
21	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 laid	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 chinaware	case
23	chinaware	chinaware	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tiles	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crystal	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 crystal	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 roof	det
27	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crystal	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 walls	cc
29	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 roof	conj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 crystal	cop
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 crystal	case
32	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	light	participle	dream	a lamp		immediately property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Product
2	go down	past	dream not said here	the stairs	a room the floor		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient stair=Extent
3	lay	past · passive				with tiles of chinaware; whereof property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»
4	is	past	the roof and walls			of crystal	tree rules

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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 8