The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 28
In these magnificent garments she went to meet the gnome upon the great terrace.
Who acts: hair · What happens: go, meet · To what, where: magnificent garments, 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 (hair), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 garments | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 garments | det |
| 3 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 garments | amod |
| 4 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 meet | mark |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gnome | det |
| 10 | gnome | gnome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meet | obj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 terrace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 terrace | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 terrace | amod |
| 14 | terrace | terrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gnome | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | hair | this magnificent garments | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | hair not said here | the gnome | upon the great terrace | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gnome=Co-Agent |
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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