Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 301
Her brows are bound with bracken-fronds, And golden elf-locks fly above; Her eyes are bright as diamonds And bluer than the skies above.
Who acts: golden elf locks, eyes · What happens: bind, fly, be · To what, where: brows
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (golden elf locks, eyes), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brows | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brows | brow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bound | aux:pass |
| 4 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 fronds | case |
| 6 | bracken | bracken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fronds | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 bracken | punct |
| 8 | fronds | frond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bound | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fly | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fly | cc |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 locks | amod |
| 12 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 locks | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 elf | punct |
| 14 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fly | nsubj |
| 15 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bound | conj |
| 16 | above | above | ADV | _ | 15 fly | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 bright | punct |
| 18 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bright | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 bright | cop |
| 21 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bound | parataxis |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 diamonds | case |
| 23 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bright | obl |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bluer | cc |
| 25 | bluer | blue | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 bright | conj |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 skies | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 skies | det |
| 28 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bluer | obl |
| 29 | above | above | ADV | _ | 25 bluer | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | present · passive | Comes's brows | with bracken fronds | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with frond=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | fly | present | golden elf locks | above property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Comes's eyes | as diamonds; bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Comes's eyes not said here | than the skies; above 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: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (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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