The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 41
Immediately a beautiful golden star appeared on her forehead, crowning her glossy black hair.
Who acts: beautiful golden star · What happens: appear, crown · To what, where: forehead, glossy black hair
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful golden star), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 6 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 star | det |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 star | amod |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 star | amod |
| 5 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appeared | nsubj |
| 6 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 forehead | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 9 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appeared | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crowning | punct |
| 11 | crowning | crown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 appeared | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hair | nmod:poss |
| 13 | glossy | glossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hair | amod |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hair | amod |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crowning | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a beautiful golden star | star's forehead | immediately property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on forehead=Location | |||
| 2 | crown | gerund | a beautiful golden star not said here | star's glossy black hair | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
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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