The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 30

He still lingered, but some mysterious power seemed to impel him, and passing through the door he found himself in a spacious hall, whose ceiling, walls, and floor were covered with polished tiles carved all over with unknown figures.

Who acts: tailor, mysterious power · What happens: linger, seem, impel, pass, find, cover · To what, where: tailor, door, spacious hall, floor, polished tiles

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, mysterious power), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lingered	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 lingered	advmod
3	lingered	linger	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seemed	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 seemed	cc
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 power	det
7	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 power	amod
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	nsubj
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lingered	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 impel	mark
11	impel	impel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seemed	xcomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 impel	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 found	cc
15	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 found	advcl
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 door	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 passing	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lingered	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 found	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 hall	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hall	det
24	spacious	spacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hall	amod
25	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ceiling	punct
27	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	28 ceiling	nmod:poss
28	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hall	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 walls	punct
30	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hall	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 covered	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 covered	cc
33	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 covered	nsubj:pass
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 covered	aux:pass
35	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lingered	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 tiles	case
37	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 tiles	amod
38	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 covered	obl
39	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 tiles	acl
40	all	all	ADV	_	41 over	advmod
41	over	over	ADV	_	39 carved	advmod
42	with	with	ADP	_	44 figures	case
43	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 figures	amod
44	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 carved	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lingered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	linger	past	tailor			still		tree rules
2	seem	past	some mysterious power					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	impel	to-infinitive	some mysterious power not said here	tailor				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	pass	gerund	tailor not said here		the door			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through door=Location
5	find	past	tailor	tailor	a spacious hall and a spacious hall and a spacious hall's ceiling and walls's ceiling and walls			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
6	cover	past · passive		floor			with polished tiles	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tile=Theme
7	polish	participle						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
8	carve	participle		polished tiles not said here			with unknown figures; over property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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