English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 56

The hall was furnished in a manner equally grand, and at one end of it was a glorious couch of velvet, silk and gold, and there sate Burd Ellen, combing her golden hair with a silver comb.

What happens: furnish, be, sate, comb · To what, where: hall, manner, glorious couch, one end, Burd, golden hair

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hall	det
2	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 furnished	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 furnished	aux:pass
4	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 manner	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 manner	det
7	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 furnished	obl
8	equally	equally	ADV	_	9 grand	advmod
9	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 manner	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 couch	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 couch	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 end	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 end	nummod
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 couch	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 couch	obl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 couch	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 couch	det
19	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 couch	amod
20	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 furnished	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 velvet	case
22	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 couch	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 silk	punct
24	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 velvet	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gold	cc
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 velvet	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sate	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sate	cc
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 sate	advmod
30	sate	sate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 furnished	parataxis
31	Burd	Burd	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 sate	obj
32	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Burd	flat
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 combing	punct
34	combing	comb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 sate	advcl
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 hair	nmod:poss
36	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 hair	amod
37	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 combing	obj
38	with	with	ADP	_	41 comb	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 comb	det
40	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 comb	amod
41	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 combing	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 furnished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	furnish	past · passive	the hall	a manner			vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	is a	past	a glorious couch		at one end	of hall; of velvet and silk and gold	tree rules
3	sate	infinitive	Burd	there			vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Instrument burd=Theme
4	comb	gerund	Burd's golden hair			with a silver comb	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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