The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 21

Near the coffin stood a table on which were placed four candles, four loaves of bread, and four bottles of wine.

What happens: stand, place · To what, where: table, coffin, four candles

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. 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	Near	near	ADP	_	3 coffin	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coffin	det
3	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 table	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 placed	obl
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 placed	aux:pass
10	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 table	acl:relcl
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 candles	nummod
12	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 placed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 loaves	punct
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 loaves	nummod
15	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 candles	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 bread	case
17	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 loaves	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bottles	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bottles	cc
20	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 bottles	nummod
21	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stood	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 wine	case
23	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bottles	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a table		the coffin		four bottles of wine obl	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent table=Theme near coffin=Destination
2	place	past · passive		four candles and four loaves of bread		a table			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: candle=Theme on which=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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