The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 21
Six maids of honor carried her train, and she leaned upon the arm of another.
Who acts: Felicia · What happens: carry, learn · To what, where: Six maids
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 (Felicia), 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 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 maids | nummod |
| 2 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carried | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 honor | case |
| 4 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 train | nmod:poss |
| 7 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 leaned | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 leaned | nsubj |
| 11 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | conj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 arm | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 arm | det |
| 14 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaned | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 another | case |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 arm | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | Six maids | of honor | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent train=Theme of honor=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | learn | past | Felicia | upon the arm of another | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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