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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

ccadvmoddetnmod:posscasecompoundnsubjdetamodxcompcasecompoundnmodaclcaseoblpunctccnmod:possamodamodnsubjaux:passconjcasedetoblcasenmodpunctcasensubjconjdetamodamodobjpunctrootAndCCONJimmediatelyADVtheDETPrincessPROPN’sPARTcottonNOUNdressNOUNbecameVERBaDETmagnificentADJrobeNOUNofADPsilverNOUNbrocadeNOUNembroideredVERBwithADPcarbunclesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJherPRONsoftADJdarkADJhairNOUNwasAUXencircledVERBbyADPaDETcrownNOUNofADPdiamondsNOUN,PUNCTfromADPwhichPRONfloatedVERBaDETclearADJwhiteADJveilNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_8 becamecc
2immediatelyimmediatelyADV_8 becameadvmod
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Princessdet
4PrincessPrincessPROPNNumber=Sing7 dressnmod:poss
5’s'sPART_4 Princesscase
6cottoncottonNOUNNumber=Sing7 dresscompound
7dressdressNOUNNumber=Sing8 becamensubj
8becamebecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 robedet
10magnificentmagnificentADJDegree=Pos11 robeamod
11roberobeNOUNNumber=Sing8 becamexcomp
12ofofADP_14 brocadecase
13silversilverNOUNNumber=Sing14 brocadecompound
14brocadebrocadeNOUNNumber=Sing11 robenmod
15embroideredembroiderVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass14 brocadeacl
16withwithADP_17 carbunclescase
17carbunclescarbuncleNOUNNumber=Plur15 embroideredobl
18,,PUNCT_25 encircledpunct
19andandCCONJ_25 encircledcc
20herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 hairnmod:poss
21softsoftADJDegree=Pos23 hairamod
22darkdarkADJDegree=Pos23 hairamod
23hairhairNOUNNumber=Sing25 encirclednsubj
24wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 encircledaux:pass
25encircledencircleVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass8 becameconj
26bybyADP_28 crowncase
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 crowndet
28crowncrownNOUNNumber=Sing25 encircledobl
29ofofADP_30 diamondscase
30diamondsdiamondNOUNNumber=Plur28 crownnmod
31,,PUNCT_34 floatedpunct
32fromfromADP_33 whichcase
33whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel34 floatednsubj
34floatedfloatVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 encircledconj
35aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 veildet
36clearclearADJDegree=Pos38 veilamod
37whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos38 veilamod
38veilveilNOUNNumber=Sing34 floatedobj
39..PUNCT_8 becamepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1becomepastthe Princess's cotton dressa magnificent robe of silver brocadeimmediately propertyvn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2embroiderparticiplesilver brocade not said herewith carbunclesvn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with carbuncle=Theme
3encirclepast · passivePrincess's soft dark hairby a crown of diamondsvn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
4floatpasta clear white veilvn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme
5crowndiamondsnom 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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