The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 26
Her daughters were always wrapped in veils that looked as if they were woven out of sunbeams, and their dresses shone with precious stones.
Who acts: veils, dresses · What happens: wrap, look, weave, shine · To what, where: daughters, veils, sunbeams
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (veils, dresses), 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 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 wrapped | advmod |
| 5 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 veils | case |
| 7 | veils | veil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wrapped | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 veils | acl:relcl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 woven | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 woven | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 woven | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 woven | aux:pass |
| 14 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 looked | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 sunbeams | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sunbeams | case |
| 17 | sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 woven | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shone | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shone | cc |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 dresses | nmod:poss |
| 21 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 shone | nsubj |
| 22 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wrapped | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 stones | case |
| 24 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stones | amod |
| 25 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 shone | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | past · passive | woman's daughters | veils | always property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in veil=Destination | |||
| 2 | look | past | veils | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | weave | past · passive | daughters = daughter | sunbeams | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | shine | participle | daughters's dresses | with precious stones | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with stone=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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