Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 125

The crests of the proprietors were engraved on silver shields on the velvet-bound prayer-books, and embroidered in the corners of perfumed handkerchiefs bordered with Brussels lace.

Who acts: silver · What happens: engrave, shield, embroider, perfume, border · To what, where: crests, bound prayer books, corners, perfumed handkerchiefs

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silver), 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	2 crests	det
2	crests	crest	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 engraved	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 proprietors	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 proprietors	det
5	proprietors	proprietor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crests	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 engraved	aux:pass
7	engraved	engrave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	on	on	SCONJ	_	10 shields	mark
9	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shields	nsubj
10	shields	shield	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 engraved	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	18 books	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 books	det
13	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bound	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 velvet	punct
15	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 books	amod
16	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 books	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 prayer	punct
18	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shields	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 embroidered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 embroidered	cc
21	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 engraved	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 corners	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 corners	det
24	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 embroidered	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 handkerchiefs	case
26	perfumed	perfume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 handkerchiefs	amod
27	handkerchiefs	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 corners	nmod
28	bordered	border	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 handkerchiefs	acl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 lace	case
30	Brussels	Brussels	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 lace	compound
31	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bordered	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 engraved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	engrave	past · passive		the crests of the proprietors			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
2	shield	present	silver		the bound prayer books		tree rules
3	embroider	participle			the corners of perfumed handkerchiefs		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in corner=Destination
4	perfume	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	border	participle		perfumed handkerchiefs not said here		with Brussels lace	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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