The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 128

The three maidens are princesses, whom she stole away when they were children together, with all the silver utensils, which she turned into gold flax.

Who acts: three maidens, wedding, maidens, silver utensils · What happens: be, steal away, turn · To what, where: princesses, children, gold flax

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 (three maidens, wedding, maidens, silver utensils), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maidens	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 maidens	nummod
3	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 princesses	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 princesses	cop
5	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 whom	punct
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stole	obj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stole	nsubj
9	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 princesses	acl:relcl
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 stole	advmod
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 children	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 children	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 children	cop
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stole	obl
15	together	together	ADV	_	9 stole	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 utensils	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 utensils	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 utensils	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 utensils	det
20	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 utensils	amod
21	utensils	utensil	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 princesses	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turned	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 turned	nsubj
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 turned	nsubj
25	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 utensils	acl:relcl
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 flax	case
27	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flax	compound
28	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turned	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 princesses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the three maidens	princesses and all silver utensils			tree rules
2	steal away	past	wedding	princesses and all silver utensils		away, together property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whom=Theme
3	is a	past	maidens = maiden	children			tree rules
4	turn	past	all silver utensils		gold flax		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into flax=Trajectory

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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