The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 58
So saying he gave her a large piece of the most beautiful brocade, all woven over with gold threads, and embroidered with pearls and other jewels.
Who acts: Ring · What happens: say, give, weave over, embroider · To what, where: large piece, Signy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ring), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gave | advcl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 piece | amod |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 brocade | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brocade | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 beautiful | advmod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brocade | amod |
| 13 | brocade | brocade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 threads | punct |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 threads | det |
| 16 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 threads | amod |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 woven | compound:prt |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 threads | case |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 threads | compound |
| 20 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 piece | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 embroidered | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 embroidered | cc |
| 23 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gave | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 pearls | case |
| 25 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 embroidered | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 jewels | cc |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 jewels | amod |
| 28 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pearls | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Ring not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | past | Ring | a large piece of the beautiful brocade and all woven gold threads | Signy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient piece=Theme | |||
| 3 | weave over | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | embroider | participle | Ring not said here | with pearls and other jewels | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=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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