English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 26
At once the table was spread with turkey and sausages, roast mutton, potatoes, and greens.
What happens: spread · To what, where: table
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 once | case |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 spread | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 table | det |
| 4 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spread | aux:pass |
| 6 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 turkey | case |
| 8 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spread | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sausages | cc |
| 10 | sausages | sausage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turkey | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mutton | punct |
| 12 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mutton | compound |
| 13 | mutton | mutton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turkey | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 potatoes | punct |
| 15 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turkey | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 greens | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 greens | cc |
| 18 | greens | green | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spread | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past · passive | the table | with turkey and sausages and roast mutton and potatoes; greens obl | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: subject=Theme at once=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: «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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