The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 63

Then he went with her, and inside the castle was a large hall with a marble floor, and there were heaps of servants who threw open the great doors, and the walls were covered with beautiful tapestry, and in the apartments were gilded chairs and tables, and crystal chandeliers hung from the ceiling, and all the rooms were beautifully carpeted.

Who acts: flounder, heaps, servants, crystal chandeliers · What happens: go, be, throw, open, cover, gild · To what, where: large hall, castle, great doors, walls, chairs, apartments

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flounder, heaps, servants, crystal chandeliers), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hall	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hall	cc
8	inside	inside	ADP	_	10 castle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 castle	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hall	obl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hall	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hall	det
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hall	amod
14	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 floor	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 floor	det
17	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 floor	compound
18	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hall	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 were	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 were	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 were	expl
22	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
23	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 were	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 servants	case
25	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 heaps	nmod
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 threw	nsubj
27	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 servants	acl:relcl
28	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 threw	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 doors	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 doors	amod
31	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 open	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 covered	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 covered	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 walls	det
35	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 covered	nsubj:pass
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 covered	aux:pass
37	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	parataxis
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 tapestry	case
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 tapestry	amod
40	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 covered	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 gilded	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 gilded	cc
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 apartments	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 apartments	det
45	apartments	apartment	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 gilded	obl
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 gilded	aux:pass
47	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
48	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 gilded	obj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 tables	cc
50	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 chairs	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 hung	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 hung	cc
53	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 chandeliers	amod
54	chandeliers	chandelier	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 hung	nsubj
55	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
56	from	from	ADP	_	58 ceiling	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 ceiling	det
58	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 hung	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 carpeted	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 carpeted	cc
61	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	63 rooms	det:predet
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 rooms	det
63	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 carpeted	nsubj:pass
64	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 carpeted	aux:pass
65	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	66 carpeted	advmod
66	carpeted	carpet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 hung	conj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	flounder			then	with wife	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary
2	is a	past		a large hall	the castle		with a marble floor	tree rules
3	be	past	heaps of servants		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	throw	past	servants					tree rules
5	open	infinitive	servants not said here	the great doors				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
6	cover	past · passive		the walls			with beautiful tapestry	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tapestry=Theme
7	gild	past · passive	flounder not said here	chairs and tables	the apartments			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: chair=Destination
8	hang	past	crystal chandeliers		the ceiling			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	carpet	past · passive		all rooms			beautifully property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=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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