English Fairy Tales, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick., sentence 10

The table which covers itself is the earth becoming covered with flowers and fruit at the bidding of the New Year.

Who acts: table, earth · What happens: cover, be, become, bid · To what, where: table, earth, New Year

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (table, earth), 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 table	det
2	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 earth	nsubj
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 covers	nsubj
4	covers	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 table	acl:relcl
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 covers	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 earth	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 earth	det
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	becoming	become	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 earth	acl
10	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 becoming	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 flowers	case
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 covered	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fruit	cc
14	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flowers	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 bidding	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bidding	det
17	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fruit	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 Year	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Year	det
20	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Year	compound
21	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 bidding	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 earth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover	present	the table	table		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme itself=Destination
2	is a	present	the table	the earth		tree rules
3	become	gerund	the earth not said here			tree rules
4	cover	participle	the earth not said here		with flowers and fruit at the bidding of the New Year	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme
5	bid			the New Year		nom bidding «communication transitive»: of=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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