The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 60
The dressmaker was delighted with the thread that was given her.
Who acts: dressmaker · What happens: be, give · To what, where: thread
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dressmaker), 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 | 2 dressmaker | det |
| 2 | dressmaker | dressmaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 thread | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thread | det |
| 7 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 given | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux:pass |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 thread | acl:relcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 given | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dressmaker | with the thread; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past · passive | the thread | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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