The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 89

Then Owen went to the maiden and placed his hand on her shoulder, and she guided him to a large room, painted all over with rich colours, and adorned with images of gold.

Who acts: Owen, drawbridge · What happens: go, place, guide, paint, adorn, image · To what, where: maiden, hand, shoulder, horse, large room, gold

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owen, drawbridge), 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	3 went	advmod
2	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 maiden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maiden	det
6	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 placed	cc
8	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hand	nmod:poss
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 shoulder	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 shoulder	nmod:poss
13	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 guided	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 guided	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 guided	nsubj
17	guided	guide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 guided	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 room	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 room	det
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 room	amod
22	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 guided	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 painted	punct
24	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
25	all	all	ADV	_	26 over	advmod
26	over	over	ADV	_	24 painted	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 colours	case
28	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 colours	amod
29	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 painted	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 adorned	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 adorned	cc
32	adorned	adorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 images	case
34	images	image	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 adorned	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 gold	case
36	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 images	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Owen		the maiden	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to maiden=Initial_Location
2	place	past	Owen not said here	horse's hand	drawbridge's shoulder			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on shoulder=Destination
3	guide	past	drawbridge	horse	a large room			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to room=Destination
4	paint	past	Owen not said here				with rich colours; over property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with colour=Theme
5	adorn	participle	Owen not said here				with images of gold	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with image=Theme
6	image			gold				nom image «cognition transitive»: of=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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