The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 69
She then handed him two little boxes made of ivory set with gold and pearls.
Who acts: trial · What happens: hand, make, set · To what, where: two little boxes, prince, ivory
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trial), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 handed | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 handed | advmod |
| 3 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 handed | obj |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 boxes | nummod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boxes | amod |
| 7 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 handed | obj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 boxes | acl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ivory | case |
| 10 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ivory | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pearls | cc |
| 15 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gold | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | past | trial | two little boxes | prince | then | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination box=Theme | ||
| 2 | make | participle | two little boxes not said here | of ivory | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | set | participle | ivory not said here | with gold and pearls | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with gold=Instrument |
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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