The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 69

Upon the gate hung a huge bell, upon which was written in red letters:

What happens: hang, write · To what, where: huge bell, gate, red letters

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obl
4	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bell	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bell	amod
7	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 written	punct
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 written	obl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 written	aux:pass
12	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hung	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 letters	case
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 letters	amod
15	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 written	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past		a huge bell		the gate			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bell=Theme upon gate=Destination
2	write	past · passive				red letters			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in letter=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 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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