The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 46

As she spoke the gates swung back and six fairies approached, each bearing in her hand a flower made of precious stones, but so like a real one that it was only by touching you could tell the difference.

Who acts: queen, gates, six fairies, bearing, you · What happens: speak, swing back, approach, make, touch, tell · To what, where: bearing, hand, flower, real one, difference · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, gates, six fairies, bearing), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 spoke	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swung	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gates	det
5	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swung	nsubj
6	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 swung	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 approached	cc
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 fairies	nummod
10	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 approached	nsubj
11	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swung	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bearing	punct
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 bearing	det
14	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 approached	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bearing	nmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 flower	det
19	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hand	conj
20	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 flower	acl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 stones	case
22	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stones	amod
23	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 made	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 one	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 one	cc
26	so	so	ADV	_	30 one	advmod
27	like	like	ADP	_	30 one	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 one	det
29	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 one	amod
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flower	appos
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 touching	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 touching	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 touching	aux
34	only	only	ADV	_	36 touching	advmod
35	by	by	SCONJ	_	36 touching	mark
36	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 one	acl:relcl
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 tell	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 tell	aux
39	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 touching	parataxis
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 difference	det
41	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tell	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 swung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	queen				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	swing back	past	the gates				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	approach	past	six fairies	each bearing	queen's hand and a flower		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bearing=Theme
4	make	participle		a flower not said here		of precious stones	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	touch	past · progressive	bearing	a real one not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme
6	tell speech: assert	could	you	the difference			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent difference=Recipient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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