The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 2
A fair sight was she in a robe of flame-coloured silk, with a collar of ruddy gold about her neck, bright with emeralds and rubies.
Who acts: fair sight · What happens: be · To what, where: robe
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair sight), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 2 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sight | amod |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 robe | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 robe | cop |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 robe | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 robe | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 robe | det |
| 8 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 silk | case |
| 10 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coloured | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 flame | punct |
| 12 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 silk | amod |
| 13 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 robe | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 collar | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 collar | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 collar | det |
| 17 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 robe | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 19 | ruddy | ruddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gold | amod |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 collar | nmod |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 neck | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 neck | nmod:poss |
| 23 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gold | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bright | punct |
| 25 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 collar | parataxis |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 emeralds | case |
| 27 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bright | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 rubies | cc |
| 29 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 emeralds | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 robe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a fair sight | a robe and a collar of ruddy gold about maiden's neck | of coloured silk | tree rules |
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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