The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 26
The next day, as soon as the sun rose, she made her appearance decked as a bride, in the wonderful robes and jewels which the fond gnome had prepared for her.
Who acts: sun · What happens: rise, make, deck, prepare · To what, where: appearance, fond gnome
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 made | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 rose | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | nsubj |
| 10 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rose | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 16 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 appearance | acl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 bride | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bride | det |
| 19 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 decked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 robes | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 robes | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 robes | det |
| 23 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 robes | amod |
| 24 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 made | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 jewels | cc |
| 26 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 robes | conj |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 prepared | obj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 gnome | det |
| 29 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 gnome | amod |
| 30 | gnome | gnome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 prepared | aux |
| 32 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 robes | appos |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 prepared | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | past | sun | sun's appearance | day | soon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset appearance=Beneficiary robe=Product | ||
| 3 | deck | participle | sun's appearance not said here | as a bride | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | the fond gnome | for sun | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=Product |
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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