The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 5

The three Princesses put on dresses of satin, which they had had made on purpose for this great occasion, one green, one blue, and the third white; their jewels were the same colors.

Who acts: Princesses, dresses, three Princesses · What happens: put, have, make, be · To what, where: three Princesses, dresses, purpose, same colors

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princesses, dresses, three Princesses), 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 Princesses	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 Princesses	nummod
3	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 colors	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Princesses	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 dresses	case
6	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 satin	case
8	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dresses	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 had	obj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	aux
13	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 dresses	acl:relcl
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 had	xcomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 purpose	case
16	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 occasion	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 occasion	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 occasion	amod
20	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 green	punct
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 green	nummod
23	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 occasion	amod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 blue	punct
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 blue	nummod
26	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 green	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 white	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 white	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 white	det
30	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 white	amod
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 green	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 colors	punct
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 jewels	nmod:poss
34	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 colors	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 colors	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 colors	det
37	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 colors	amod
38	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 colors	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	participle		the three Princesses not said here	dresses of satin		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination
2	have	past · perfect	Princesses = princess	dresses of satin			tree rules
3	make	participle	dresses of satin not said here		purpose	for this great occasion	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for occasion=Asset
4	is a	past	the three Princesses	the same colors			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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