The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 21

and scarcely had she uttered the words, when there stood a little table before her covered with a white cloth, on which were arranged a plate, with a knife and fork and a silver spoon, and the most beautiful dishes, which were smoking hot, as if they had just come out of the kitchen.

Who acts: goat, beautiful dishes, words · What happens: utter, stand, cover, arrange, smoke, come out · To what, where: words, little table, plate

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goat, beautiful dishes, words), 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 uttered	cc
2	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	5 uttered	advmod
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 uttered	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 uttered	nsubj
5	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 words	det
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 uttered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 stood	advmod
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 stood	expl
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 uttered	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 table	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 table	amod
14	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	obj
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 covered	mark
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 covered	nmod:poss
17	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 stood	advcl
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 cloth	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cloth	det
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cloth	amod
21	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 covered	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 arranged	punct
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 arranged	obl
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 arranged	aux:pass
26	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 covered	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 plate	det
28	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 arranged	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 knife	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 knife	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 knife	det
32	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 arranged	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 fork	cc
34	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knife	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 spoon	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 spoon	det
37	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 spoon	compound
38	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knife	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 dishes	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 dishes	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 dishes	det
42	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	43 beautiful	advmod
43	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 dishes	amod
44	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 uttered	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 smoking	punct
46	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 smoking	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 smoking	aux
48	smoking	smoke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 dishes	conj
49	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 smoking	xcomp
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 come	punct
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	56 come	mark
52	if	if	SCONJ	_	56 come	mark
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 come	nsubj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 come	aux
55	just	just	ADV	_	56 come	advmod
56	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 uttered	parataxis
57	out	out	ADV	_	56 come	advmod
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 kitchen	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 kitchen	det
60	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 come	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 uttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	past	goat	the words		the beautiful dishes obl; scarcely property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	stand	past	goat not said here	a little table	there		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=Stimulus
3	cover	participle	goat not said here			with a white cloth	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloth=Theme
4	arrange	past · passive	goat not said here	a plate			vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: plate=Theme on which=Destination
5	smoke	past · progressive	the beautiful dishes			hot property	vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come out a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	words = word			of the kitchen; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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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