The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 78
They bowed respectfully to her and displayed some splendid velvets and brocades, and opened cases of pearls and precious stones.
Who acts: servants · What happens: bow, display, open · To what, where: princess, splendid velvets, cases
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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 bowed | nsubj |
| 2 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | respectfully | respectfully | ADV | _ | 2 bowed | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bowed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 displayed | cc |
| 7 | displayed | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bowed | conj |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 velvets | det |
| 9 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 velvets | amod |
| 10 | velvets | velvet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 displayed | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 brocades | cc |
| 12 | brocades | brocade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 velvets | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 opened | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 opened | cc |
| 15 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bowed | parataxis |
| 16 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 opened | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pearls | case |
| 18 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cases | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stones | cc |
| 20 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stones | amod |
| 21 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cases | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | servants = servant | princess | respectfully property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to she=Pivot | |||
| 2 | display | past | servants = servant not said here | some splendid velvets and brocades | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent velvet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | open | past | cases of pearls and precious stones | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location case=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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