The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 48
First they bathed in green marble baths where the water looked like the sea, and then they put on silken clothes that felt soft and pleasant.
Who acts: servants, water, silken clothes · What happens: bath, look, put on, feel · To what, where: green marble baths, silken clothes
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, water, silken clothes), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 bathed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bathed | nsubj |
| 3 | bathed | bath | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 baths | case |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 baths | amod |
| 6 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 baths | compound |
| 7 | baths | bath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bathed | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 looked | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 baths | acl:relcl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 put | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | nsubj |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bathed | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 put | compound:prt |
| 21 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 clothes | amod |
| 22 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 put | obj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 felt | nsubj |
| 24 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 25 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 felt | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pleasant | cc |
| 27 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 soft | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bathed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bath | past | servants = servant | green marble baths | first property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | past | the water | like the sea | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | put on | past | servants = servant | silken clothes | then | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent clothes=Goal | |||
| 4 | feel | past | silken clothes | soft property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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