The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 116
She was ten times more beautiful than before, and wore a magnificent pale yellow robe, sparkling with jewels.
Who acts: crab · What happens: be, wear, sparkle · To what, where: magnificent pale yellow robe
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crab), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beautiful | cop |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 times | nummod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 beautiful | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 before | case |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 beautiful | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wore | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wore | cc |
| 11 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beautiful | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 robe | det |
| 13 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 robe | amod |
| 14 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 robe | amod |
| 15 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 robe | amod |
| 16 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wore | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sparkling | punct |
| 18 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wore | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 jewels | case |
| 20 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sparkling | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | crab | time | beautiful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wear | past | a magnificent pale yellow robe | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sparkle | gerund | with jewels | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with jewel=Theme |
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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