The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 72

They wore red shirts bound with gold braid, and were so much alike that one could hardly tell one from another.

Who acts: peasants, one · What happens: wear, bind, be · To what, where: red shirts, another

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants, one), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wore	nsubj
2	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shirts	amod
4	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wore	obj
5	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 shirts	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 braid	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 braid	compound
8	braid	braid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bound	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tell	cc
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADV	_	19 tell	advmod
14	alike	alike	SCONJ	_	19 tell	mark
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	aux
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	19 tell	advmod
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wore	conj
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 tell	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 another	case
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 tell	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wear	past	peasants = peasant	red shirts			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme
2	bind	participle		red shirts not said here		with gold braid	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with braid=Co-Patient
3	is	could · past	that one		another	hardly, tell property	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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