The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 6

The eldest wore emeralds, the second turquoises, and the youngest diamonds, and thus adorned they went to meet the King, singing verses which they had composed about his victories.

Who acts: eldest, Princesses · What happens: wear, adorn, go, meet, sing, compose · To what, where: emeralds, King, verses

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 (eldest, 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	2 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 wore	nsubj
3	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wore	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 turquoises	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 turquoises	det
7	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 turquoises	amod
8	turquoises	turquoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 emeralds	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 diamonds	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 diamonds	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 diamonds	det
12	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 diamonds	amod
13	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wore	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 adorned	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 adorned	cc
16	thus	thus	ADV	_	17 adorned	advmod
17	adorned	adorn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wore	conj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 adorned	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 meet	mark
21	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 went	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 meet	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 singing	punct
25	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 went	advcl
26	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 singing	obj
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 composed	nsubj:pass
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 composed	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 composed	aux
30	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 verses	acl:relcl
31	about	about	ADP	_	33 victories	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 victories	nmod:poss
33	victories	victory	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 composed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wear	past	the eldest	emeralds and the second turquoises	the youngest diamonds obl	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent emerald=Theme
2	adorn	past	the eldest not said here		thus property	tree rules
3	go	past	Princesses = princess			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	meet	to-infinitive	Princesses = princess not said here	the King		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent
5	sing speech: express	gerund	Princesses = princess not said here	verses		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location verse=Theme
6	compose	past · perfect · passive		verses	about king's victories	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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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