The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 21
She was leaning upon the arm of a most beautiful young girl, who wore chains of gold on her wrists and was evidently her slave.
Who acts: ugliness, beautiful young girl · What happens: lean, wear, be · To what, where: arm, chains, wrists, slave
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ugliness, beautiful young girl), 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 leaning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 leaning | aux |
| 3 | leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 arm | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 arm | det |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaning | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 girl | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 girl | amod |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 girl | amod |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arm | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wore | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 wore | nsubj |
| 15 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 girl | acl:relcl |
| 16 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wore | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chains | nmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 wrists | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wrists | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wrists | wrist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wore | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 slave | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 slave | cop |
| 24 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 26 slave | advmod |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 slave | nmod:poss |
| 26 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaning | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean | past · progressive | ugliness | the arm of a beautiful young girl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon arm=Location | ||||
| 2 | wear | past | a beautiful young girl | chains of gold | ugliness's wrists | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent chain=Source | |||
| 3 | is a | past | ugliness not said here | ugliness's slave | evidently property | 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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