The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 91

When the shining green silk was ready she caught the sun’s rays and the moon’s beams on the point of her needle and wove them into a pattern such as no man had ever seen.

Who acts: shining green silk, Lineik, man, sun, moon · What happens: shine, be, catch, weave, see, ray · To what, where: rays, point, pattern, needle

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shining green silk, Lineik, man, sun), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 ready	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 silk	det
3	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 silk	amod
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 silk	amod
5	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ready	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ready	cop
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 caught	nsubj
9	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ready	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rays	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 sun	case
13	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 caught	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 beams	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moon	det
16	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beams	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 moon	case
18	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rays	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 point	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 point	det
21	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caught	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 needle	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 needle	nmod:poss
24	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 point	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wove	cc
26	wove	weave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 caught	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wove	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 pattern	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 pattern	det
30	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wove	obl
31	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	37 seen	mark
32	as	as	ADP	_	31 such	fixed
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 man	det
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 seen	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 seen	aux
36	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 seen	advmod
37	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 pattern	acl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the shining green silk				ready property	tree rules
3	catch	past	Lineik	the sun's rays and the moon's beams	the point of Lineik's needle			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Theme
4	weave	past	Lineik not said here	rays = ray	a pattern			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into pattern=Product
5	see	past · perfect	no man	a pattern not said here		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Stimulus
6	ray		the sun					nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent
7	beam		the moon					nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	point			Lineik's needle				nom point «cognition 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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