The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 88

And in it was spread an enormous repast, while the table so glittered with golden cups and plates, flagons and dishes, candlesticks and a hundred other things beside, that it was hardly possible to look steadily at it.

Who acts: it · What happens: spread, glitter, be, look · To what, where: house, table

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 spread	cc
2	in	in	SCONJ	_	5 spread	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spread	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spread	aux:pass
5	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 repast	det
7	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 repast	amod
8	repast	repast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spread	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 glittered	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 glittered	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 table	det
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 glittered	nsubj:pass
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 glittered	advmod
14	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 spread	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 cups	case
16	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cups	amod
17	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 glittered	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 plates	cc
19	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cups	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flagons	punct
21	flagons	flagon	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cups	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dishes	cc
23	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cups	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 candlesticks	punct
25	candlesticks	candlestick	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cups	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 things	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hundred	det
28	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 things	nummod
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 things	amod
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cups	conj
31	beside	beside	ADP	_	37 possible	mark
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 possible	punct
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 possible	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 possible	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 possible	cop
36	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	37 possible	advmod
37	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 things	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 look	mark
39	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 possible	csubj
40	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	39 look	advmod
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 look	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread	past · passive		house		tree rules
2	glitter	participle · passive		the table	with golden cups and plates and flagons and dishes and candlesticks and hundred other things	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	is	past	it		hardly, possible property	tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive			at house; steadily property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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