English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 57
Here they were placed, as it is the custom of the country, on rich carpets flowered with gold and silver.
Who acts: ship · What happens: place, be, flower · To what, where: things, rich carpets
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 placed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 placed | aux:pass |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 custom | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 custom | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 custom | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 custom | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 custom | det |
| 10 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 country | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 country | det |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 custom | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 carpets | punct |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 carpets | case |
| 16 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 carpets | amod |
| 17 | carpets | carpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 placed | obl |
| 18 | flowered | flower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 carpets | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flowered | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 silver | cc |
| 22 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gold | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | things = thing | rich carpets; here | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on carpet=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | present | ship | as the custom; of the country | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flower | participle | rich carpets not said here | with gold and silver | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gold=Theme |
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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