The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 49
Veils, girdles, and necklaces were tried on and admired, the imitation Brunhilda knew so well how to behave herself, and showed so much taste that nobody would ever have suspected that she was nothing but a turnip after all.
Who acts: Veils, friend · What happens: try on, admire, know, behave, show, suspect · To what, where: necklaces, imitation, friend, much taste, nobody, nothing
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Veils, friend), 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 | Veils | veil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 girdles | punct |
| 3 | girdles | girdle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Veils | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tried | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tried | cc |
| 6 | necklaces | necklace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tried | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tried | aux:pass |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Veils | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 tried | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 admired | cc |
| 11 | admired | admire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tried | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 imitation | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 imitation | det |
| 14 | imitation | imitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 admired | obj |
| 15 | Brunhilda | Brunhilda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 imitation | appos |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 behave | advmod |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 behave | advmod |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 behave | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 behave | mark |
| 21 | behave | behave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 knew | ccomp |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 behave | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 showed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 showed | cc |
| 25 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 knew | conj |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 much | advmod |
| 27 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 taste | amod |
| 28 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 showed | obj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 suspected | obj |
| 30 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 34 suspected | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 suspected | aux |
| 32 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 34 suspected | advmod |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 suspected | aux |
| 34 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 taste | acl:relcl |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 nothing | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 nothing | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 nothing | cop |
| 38 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 34 suspected | advcl |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 turnip | cc |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 turnip | det |
| 41 | turnip | turnip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 nothing | conj |
| 42 | after | after | ADP | _ | 43 all | case |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 turnip | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try on | past · passive | necklaces | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | admire | participle | the imitation | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer imitation=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | know | past | Veils and girdles | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | behave | to-infinitive | friend | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | show | past | Veils and girdles not said here | much taste | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent taste=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | suspect | would · perfect · passive | nobody | ever | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme that=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | friend | nothing | tree rules |
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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