The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 70

They were like three very beautiful young women, dressed one in green, one in white, and one in red, and they were dancing and singing round an apple tree with apples of gold, and this was their song:

Who acts: Fairies, three beautiful young women, this · What happens: be, dress, dance, sing · To what, where: one, green, one song

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairies, three beautiful young women, this), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 women	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 women	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	8 women	case
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 women	nummod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 beautiful	advmod
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 women	amod
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 women	amod
8	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dressed	punct
10	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 women	acl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 dressed	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 green	case
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 one	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 white	case
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 song	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 song	cc
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 song	nummod
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 red	case
22	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 one	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dancing	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dancing	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 dancing	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dancing	aux
27	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 one	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 singing	cc
29	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 dancing	conj
30	round	round	ADP	_	33 tree	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 tree	det
32	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tree	compound
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 singing	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 apples	case
35	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 tree	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 gold	case
37	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 apples	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 song	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 song	cc
40	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 song	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 song	cop
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 song	nmod:poss
43	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 women	conj
44	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 women	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Fairies = fairy			like three beautiful young women and Fairies's one song	tree rules
2	dress	participle	three beautiful young women and Fairies's one song not said here	one	green		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	dance	past · progressive	Fairies = fairy				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sing speech: express	gerund	Fairies = fairy not said here			round a apple tree with apples of gold	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	this	Fairies's one song			tree rules

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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