The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 22
It was of green velvet, scattered over with large golden thistles, and lined inside with silver brocade embroidered with pink roses.
Who acts: carriage · What happens: be, scatter over, line, embroider · To what, where: green velvet, silver brocade
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carriage), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 velvet | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 velvet | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 velvet | case |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 velvet | amod |
| 5 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 scattered | punct |
| 7 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 velvet | acl |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 scattered | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 thistles | case |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thistles | amod |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thistles | amod |
| 12 | thistles | thistle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 scattered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lined | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lined | cc |
| 15 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 velvet | acl |
| 16 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 15 lined | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 brocade | case |
| 18 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 brocade | amod |
| 19 | brocade | brocade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lined | obl |
| 20 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 brocade | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 roses | case |
| 22 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 roses | amod |
| 23 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 embroidered | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 velvet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | carriage | of green velvet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scatter over | participle | green velvet not said here | with large golden thistles; over property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thistle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | line | participle | green velvet not said here | with silver brocade; inside property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with brocade=Theme | ||||
| 4 | embroider | participle | silver brocade not said here | with pink roses | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rose=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 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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