The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 70

Ahti owns also the fairest maidens, who bear the train of his queen Wellamos, and at the sound of music they comb their long, flowing locks, which glisten in the water.’

Who acts: Ahti, fairest maidens, sailors, locks · What happens: own, bear, comb, flow, glisten · To what, where: fairest maidens, train, long, sound, locks, water

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ahti, fairest maidens, sailors, locks), 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	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 owns	nsubj
2	owns	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	also	also	ADV	_	6 maidens	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maidens	det
5	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 maidens	amod
6	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 owns	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bear	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 bear	nsubj
9	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 maidens	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 train	det
11	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bear	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 queen	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 queen	nmod:poss
14	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 train	nmod
15	Wellamos	Wellamos	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 queen	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 comb	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 comb	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 sound	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sound	det
20	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 comb	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 music	case
22	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sound	nmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 comb	nsubj
24	comb	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 owns	conj
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 long	nmod:poss
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 comb	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 flowing	punct
28	flowing	flow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 comb	advcl
29	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 flowing	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 glisten	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 glisten	nsubj
32	glisten	glisten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 locks	acl:relcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 water	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 water	det
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 glisten	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 owns	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 owns	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	own	present	Ahti	the fairest maidens		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot maiden=Theme
2	bear	present	the fairest maidens	the train of Ahti's queen		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Patient
3	comb	present	sailors = sailor	sailors's long	the sound of music	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent long=Patient
4	flow	gerund	sailors = sailor not said here	locks		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lock=Theme
5	glisten	present	locks		the water	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location

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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