The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 51

They wandered all through the castle, and came at last to a room in the middle of which stood a bed hung all round with heavy curtains.

Who acts: stars, middle, bed · What happens: wander, come, stand, hang · To what, where: castle, last

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stars, middle, bed), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wandered	nsubj
2	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	2 wandered	advmod
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 castle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 castle	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wandered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	parataxis
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 came	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 room	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 room	det
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 middle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 middle	det
17	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 room	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 stood	nsubj
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 middle	acl:relcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bed	det
22	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hung	nsubj
23	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stood	ccomp
24	all	all	ADV	_	25 round	advmod
25	round	round	ADV	_	23 hung	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 curtains	case
27	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 curtains	amod
28	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hung	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past	stars = star	the castle	all property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through castle=Trajectory
2	come	past		last	to a room in the middle	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location
3	stand	past	the middle			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	hang	past	a bed		with heavy curtains; round property	vn assuming_position-50 «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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