The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 3
She always wore a crown of flowers, and her dresses were embroidered with diamonds and pearls, and everybody who saw her fell in love with her.
Who acts: princess, everybody · What happens: wear, embroider, see, fall, crown · To what, where: crown, dresses, princess, love, flowers
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, everybody), 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 | 3 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 wore | advmod |
| 3 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crown | det |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wore | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 flowers | case |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 crown | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 embroidered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 embroidered | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dresses | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 embroidered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 embroidered | aux:pass |
| 13 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wore | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 diamonds | case |
| 15 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 embroidered | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pearls | cc |
| 17 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 diamonds | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fell | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fell | cc |
| 20 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 everybody | acl:relcl |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | obj |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wore | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 love | case |
| 26 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fell | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | princess | a crown of flowers | always property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | |||
| 2 | embroider | past · passive | princess's dresses | with diamonds and pearls | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with diamond=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | everybody | love | with princess | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 5 | crown | flowers | nom 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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