---
title: There were carpets everywhere, thick and soft, and of deep rich colo… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There were carpets everywhere, thick and soft, and of deep rich colours; and the cushions were of silk, and made you sleepy even to look at them; and curious little figures in china were scattered about. Who acts: carpets, cushions. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fair
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/14/22/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/14/) / 22

# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 22

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
There were carpets everywhere, thick and soft, and of deep rich colours; and the cushions were of silk, and made you sleepy even to look at them; and curious little figures in china were scattered about.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** carpets, cushions · **What happens:** be, make, look, scatter · **To what, where:** you, curious little figures

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carpets, cushions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3282:1205`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:14:22
# text = There were carpets everywhere, thick and soft, and of deep rich colours; and the cushions were of silk, and made you sleepy even to look at them; and curious little figures in china were scattered about.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	carpets	carpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
34	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
41	about	about	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | carpets |  |  | there |  | everywhere *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the cushions |  |  |  |  | of silk | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past | the cushions *not said here* | you |  |  |  | sleepy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | the cushions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at cushions *= cushion* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
| 5 | **scatter** | past · passive |  | curious little figures in china |  |  |  | about *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/14/21/)
- next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/14/23/)
- ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/14/)