--- title: There were pictures hanging on the walls, and near the Dutch stove s… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: There were pictures hanging on the walls, and near the Dutch stove stood great Chinese vases with lions on their lids; there were armchairs, silk-covered sofas, big tables laden with picture-books and toys, worth hundreds of pounds-at least, so the children said. Who acts: pictures, armchairs, big t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/11/57/) [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 Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/11/) / 57 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 57 There were pictures hanging on the walls, and near the Dutch stove stood great Chinese vases with lions on their lids; there were armchairs, silk-covered sofas, big tables laden with picture-books and toys, worth hundreds of pounds-at least, so the children said. **Who acts:** pictures, armchairs, big tables, children · **What happens:** be, hang, stand, cover, laden, say · **To what, where:** walls, great Chinese vases, Dutch stove, armchairs · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pictures, armchairs, big tables, children), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg5615:11:57 # text = There were pictures hanging on the walls, and near the Dutch stove stood great Chinese vases with lions on their lids; there were armchairs, silk-covered sofas, big tables laden with picture-books and toys, worth hundreds of pounds-at least, so the children said. 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 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 4 hanging hang VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 near near ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Dutch dutch ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 stove stove NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 14 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 vases vas NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 lids lid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 25 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 armchairs armchair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 31 sofas sofa NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 tables table NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 laden laden VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 at at ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 46 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 so so ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 nsubj _ _ 54 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | pictures | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hang** | gerund | pictures *not said here* | | | the walls | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location | | 3 | **stand** | past | pictures *not said here* | great Chinese vases | | the Dutch stove | | with lions on pictures's lids | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vas=Theme near stove=Destination | | 4 | **be** | past | armchairs and covered sofas | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **cover** | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **laden** | present | big tables | armchairs and covered sofas *not said here* | | | | with picture books and toys and worth hundreds of pounds | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the children | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/11/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/11/58/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/11/)