The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 79
His superb robe of cloth of gold was girt round him by a white cashmere shawl, and his white, richly jewelled turban showed that he was a man of wealth and high rank.
Who acts: superb robe, white richly jewelled turban, person · What happens: be, jewell, show · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (superb robe, white richly jewelled turban, person), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 robe | nmod:poss |
| 2 | superb | superb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 robe | amod |
| 3 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 girt | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cloth | case |
| 5 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 robe | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cloth | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 girt | cop |
| 9 | girt | girt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 girt | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 shawl | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 shawl | det |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shawl | amod |
| 15 | cashmere | cashmere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shawl | compound |
| 16 | shawl | shawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 girt | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 showed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 showed | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 turban | nmod:poss |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 turban | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 white | punct |
| 22 | richly | richly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 turban | amod |
| 23 | jewelled | jewell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 turban | amod |
| 24 | turban | turban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 showed | nsubj |
| 25 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 girt | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 man | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 man | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 man | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 man | det |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 showed | ccomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 wealth | case |
| 32 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 man | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 rank | cc |
| 34 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 rank | amod |
| 35 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 man | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 girt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | person's superb robe of cloth of gold | round person; by a white cashmere shawl; girt property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | jewell | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | show | past | person's white richly jewelled turban | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | person | a man and high rank | of wealth | tree rules |
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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