The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 79
Then they brought to Gilguerillo a magnificent tunic of green velvet bordered with gold, and a cap with three white plumes stuck in it; and at the sight of him so arrayed, the princess fell in love with him in a moment.
Who acts: courtiers, princess · What happens: bring, border, array, fall, sight · To what, where: magnificent tunic, Gilguerillo, green velvet, sight, love
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtiers, princess), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Gilguerillo | case |
| 5 | Gilguerillo | Gilguerillo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tunic | det |
| 7 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tunic | amod |
| 8 | tunic | tunic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 velvet | case |
| 10 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 velvet | amod |
| 11 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tunic | nmod |
| 12 | bordered | border | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 velvet | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 gold | case |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bordered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cap | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cap | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cap | det |
| 18 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 plumes | case |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 plumes | nummod |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 plumes | amod |
| 22 | plumes | plume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cap | nmod |
| 23 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 plumes | amod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stuck | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 arrayed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 arrayed | cc |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 sight | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sight | det |
| 30 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 arrayed | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 sight | nmod |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 arrayed | advmod |
| 34 | arrayed | array | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 fell | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 princess | det |
| 37 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fell | nsubj |
| 38 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 arrayed | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 love | case |
| 40 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fell | obl |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 fell | obl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 moment | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 moment | det |
| 45 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fell | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | courtiers = courtier | a magnificent tunic of green velvet | Gilguerillo | then | a cap with three white plumes obl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tunic=Theme to gilguerillo=Destination | |
| 2 | border | participle | green velvet not said here | with gold | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | array | past | the sight of Gilguerillo | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | the princess | love | moment | with Gilguerillo | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | ||
| 5 | sight | Gilguerillo | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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