The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 33
Then his three daughters were sent for, and they all entered dressed in green silk of the same fashion, and with golden circlets round their heads.
What happens: send, dress · To what, where: three daughters, hands, green silk
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sent | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 daughters | nummod |
| 4 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | aux:pass |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 sent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dressed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dressed | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dressed | aux:pass |
| 13 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sent | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 silk | case |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 silk | amod |
| 16 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dressed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fashion | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fashion | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fashion | amod |
| 20 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 silk | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 circlets | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 circlets | cc |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 circlets | case |
| 24 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 circlets | amod |
| 25 | circlets | circlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sent | obl |
| 26 | round | round | ADP | _ | 28 heads | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heads | nmod:poss |
| 28 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 circlets | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | father's three daughters | then | with golden circlets round hands's heads | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | dress | past · passive | hands = hand | green silk of the same fashion | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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