The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 132
As they went, the bride stooped and picked a sprig of shamrock, which grew amongst the grass, and when she stood upright again her ugliness had all gone, and the most beautiful woman that ever was seen stood by the king’s side.
Who acts: maidens, bride, shamrock, beautiful woman · What happens: go, stoop, pick, grow, stand, see · To what, where: sprig, grass, beautiful woman
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens, bride, shamrock, beautiful woman), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stooped | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bride | det |
| 6 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stooped | nsubj |
| 7 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 picked | cc |
| 9 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stooped | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sprig | det |
| 11 | sprig | sprig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 picked | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 shamrock | case |
| 13 | shamrock | shamrock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sprig | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grew | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 grew | nsubj |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shamrock | acl:relcl |
| 17 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 19 grass | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 grass | det |
| 19 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grew | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stood | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stood | cc |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 stood | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stood | nsubj |
| 24 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stooped | conj |
| 25 | upright | upright | ADV | _ | 24 stood | advmod |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 stood | advmod |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 ugliness | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ugliness | ugliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gone | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 gone | aux |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | _ | 31 gone | advmod |
| 31 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stood | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 woman | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 woman | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 woman | det |
| 35 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 36 beautiful | advmod |
| 36 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 woman | amod |
| 37 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gone | advcl |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 seen | nsubj |
| 39 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 41 seen | advmod |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 seen | aux:pass |
| 41 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 woman | acl:relcl |
| 42 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 seen | xcomp |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 side | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 king | det |
| 45 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 side | nmod:poss |
| 46 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 45 king | case |
| 47 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 stood | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | maidens = maiden | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stoop | past | the bride | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pick | past | the bride not said here | a sprig of shamrock | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sprig=Patient | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | shamrock | the grass | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst grass=Location | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | bride | again | upright property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | see | past · passive | the beautiful woman | ever | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | stand | participle | the beautiful woman not said here | by the king's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=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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