The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 101
He wore a coat of green velvet fastened with emerald clasps, and had a crown of pinks on his head.
Who acts: way · What happens: wear, fasten, have, crown · To what, where: coat, green velvet, crown, head, pinks
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coat | det |
| 4 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wore | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 velvet | case |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 velvet | amod |
| 7 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coat | nmod |
| 8 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 velvet | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 clasps | case |
| 10 | emerald | emerald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clasps | compound |
| 11 | clasps | clasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fastened | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wore | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 crown | det |
| 16 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pinks | case |
| 18 | pinks | pink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 crown | nmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | way | a coat of green velvet | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fasten | participle | green velvet not said here | with emerald clasps | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with clasp=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | a crown of pinks | way's head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient | ||||
| 4 | crown | pinks | nom crown «communication 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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