The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 40

You would have thought invisible spirits were at work, for in next to no time the table and benches were covered with green cloth, the chairs with velvet, and elegant silk curtains hung before the windows.

Who acts: You, invisible spirits, time, elegant silk curtains · What happens: think, be, cover, hang · To what, where: chairs, work, table, windows · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, invisible spirits, time, elegant silk curtains), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	aux
4	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spirits	amod
6	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 work	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 work	cop
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 work	case
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 next	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 next	case
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 next	case
13	next	next	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 next	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 table	det
18	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 covered	nsubj:pass
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 benches	cc
20	benches	bench	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 table	conj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 covered	aux:pass
22	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 time	acl:relcl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 cloth	case
24	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cloth	amod
25	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 covered	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 chairs	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 chairs	det
28	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thought	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 velvet	case
30	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 chairs	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 hung	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 hung	cc
33	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 curtains	amod
34	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 curtains	compound
35	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 hung	nsubj
36	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thought	conj
37	before	before	ADP	_	39 windows	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 windows	det
39	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 hung	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would · perfect	You	the chairs with velvet		next property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	invisible spirits		work		tree rules
3	cover	past · passive	no time not said here	the table and benches		with green cloth	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with cloth=Theme
4	hang	participle	elegant silk curtains		the windows		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before window=Location

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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