The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 27
Her golden hair was braided and crowned with myrtle blossoms, and her flowing veil sparkled with gems.
Who acts: flowing veil · What happens: braid, crown, flow, sparkle · To what, where: golden hair
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 (flowing veil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:2827): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | 3 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hair | amod |
| 3 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 braided | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 braided | aux:pass |
| 5 | braided | braid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 crowned | cc |
| 7 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 braided | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 blossoms | case |
| 9 | myrtle | myrtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blossoms | compound |
| 10 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crowned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sparkled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sparkled | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 veil | nmod:poss |
| 14 | flowing | flow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 veil | amod |
| 15 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sparkled | nsubj |
| 16 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 braided | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 gems | case |
| 18 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sparkled | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 braided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | braid | past · passive | sun's golden hair | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | crown | participle | with myrtle blossoms | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blossom=Theme | |||||
| 3 | flow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sparkle | past | sun's flowing veil | with gems | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gem=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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