The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 158
In the middle of the hall stood a round table covered with a variety of dishes, and about the table was a divan on which eight men were seated.
What happens: stand, cover, be, seat · To what, where: round table, middle, divan, eight men
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 table | det |
| 9 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 table | amod |
| 10 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 table | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 variety | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 variety | det |
| 14 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dishes | case |
| 16 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 variety | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 divan | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 divan | cc |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 table | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 table | det |
| 21 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 divan | obl |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 divan | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 divan | det |
| 24 | divan | divan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | parataxis |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 seated | obl |
| 27 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 men | nummod |
| 28 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 seated | aux:pass |
| 30 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 divan | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a round table | the middle of the hall | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent table=Theme in middle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | a round table not said here | with a variety of dishes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with variety=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a divan | about the table | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seat | past · passive | eight men | a divan | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
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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