English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 35

The lad set it in the middle of the room, and bade it be covered; but all in vain, the table remained bare.

Who acts: lad, table · What happens: set, cover, remain · To what, where: table, middle, bade

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: who acts (lad, table), 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 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 middle	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 covered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 covered	cc
13	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 covered	nsubj:pass
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 covered	nsubj:pass
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 covered	aux:pass
16	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 set	parataxis
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 vain	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 vain	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 vain	nsubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 vain	case
21	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 set	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 remained	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 table	det
24	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 remained	nsubj
25	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 vain	conj
26	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 remained	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past	the lad	table	the middle of the room		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in middle=Destination
2	cover	infinitive · passive		bade			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
3	remain	past	the table			bare property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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