The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 20
When the cupboard was opened they found meat, cakes, fruit, and wine, all spread out in the most tempting fashions.
Who acts: spirits · What happens: open, find, spread out · To what, where: cupboard, meat, tempting fashions
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirits), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cupboard | det |
| 3 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | aux:pass |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 found | advcl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cakes | punct |
| 10 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meat | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fruit | punct |
| 12 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meat | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wine | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wine | cc |
| 15 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meat | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spread | punct |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 spread | advmod |
| 18 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | parataxis |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 spread | compound:prt |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 fashions | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fashions | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 fashions | advmod |
| 23 | tempting | tempting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fashions | compound |
| 24 | fashions | fashion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 spread | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | the cupboard | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | spirits = spirit | meat and cakes and fruit and wine | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Topic | ||||
| 3 | spread out | present | the tempting fashions | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fashion=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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