The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 122
And immediately the Princess’s cotton dress became a magnificent robe of silver brocade embroidered with carbuncles, and her soft dark hair was encircled by a crown of diamonds, from which floated a clear white veil.
Who acts: cotton dress · What happens: become, embroider, encircle, float, crown · To what, where: magnificent robe, silver brocade, soft dark hair, clear white veil, diamonds
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 (cotton dress), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 became | cc |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 8 became | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dress | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Princess | case |
| 6 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dress | compound |
| 7 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | nsubj |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 robe | det |
| 10 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 robe | amod |
| 11 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 brocade | case |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brocade | compound |
| 14 | brocade | brocade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 robe | nmod |
| 15 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 brocade | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 carbuncles | case |
| 17 | carbuncles | carbuncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 embroidered | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 encircled | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 encircled | cc |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hair | nmod:poss |
| 21 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hair | amod |
| 22 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hair | amod |
| 23 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 encircled | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 encircled | aux:pass |
| 25 | encircled | encircle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 became | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 crown | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 crown | det |
| 28 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 encircled | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 diamonds | case |
| 30 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 crown | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 floated | punct |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 floated | nsubj |
| 34 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 encircled | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 veil | det |
| 36 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 veil | amod |
| 37 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 veil | amod |
| 38 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 floated | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the Princess's cotton dress | a magnificent robe of silver brocade | immediately property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | embroider | participle | silver brocade not said here | with carbuncles | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with carbuncle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | encircle | past · passive | Princess's soft dark hair | by a crown of diamonds | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | float | past | a clear white veil | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme | |||||
| 5 | crown | diamonds | 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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