The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 76
Many of them wore golden collars with jewels, flowers, and ribbons.
Who acts: Many · What happens: wear · To what, where: golden collars
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 (Many), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Many | nmod |
| 4 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 collars | amod |
| 6 | collars | collar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wore | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 jewels | case |
| 8 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wore | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flowers | punct |
| 10 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 jewels | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ribbons | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ribbons | cc |
| 13 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 jewels | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | Many of others | golden collars | with jewels and flowers and ribbons | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent collar=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/30/76/