The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 7
The four greatest nobles in the kingdom held a canopy of crimson silk over the queen, and the Sheik of Medina fanned her with a peacock-feather fan.
Who acts: four greatest nobles, Sheik · What happens: hold, fan · To what, where: canopy, queen
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 (four greatest nobles, Sheik), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nobles | det |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 nobles | nummod |
| 3 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 nobles | amod |
| 4 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 held | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 kingdom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kingdom | det |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nobles | nmod |
| 8 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 canopy | det |
| 10 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 held | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 silk | case |
| 12 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 silk | compound |
| 13 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 canopy | nmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 queen | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 queen | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 held | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fanned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fanned | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Sheik | det |
| 20 | Sheik | Sheik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 fanned | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Medina | case |
| 22 | Medina | Medina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Sheik | nmod |
| 23 | fanned | fan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 held | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fanned | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 fan | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 fan | det |
| 27 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 feather | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 peacock | punct |
| 29 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fan | compound |
| 30 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fanned | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the four greatest nobles in the kingdom | a canopy of crimson silk | over the queen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent canopy=Theme over queen=Location | |||
| 2 | fan | past | the Sheik of Medina | queen | with a feather fan | 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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