The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 73
His dress was very simple; but he wore a light helmet of gold, adorned with jewels and a plume.
Who acts: dress, Emperor · What happens: be, wear, adorn · To what, where: light helmet
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dress, Emperor), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dress | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 simple | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 simple | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 simple | advmod |
| 5 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 wore | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 wore | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wore | nsubj |
| 9 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 simple | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 helmet | det |
| 11 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 helmet | amod |
| 12 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wore | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 gold | case |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 helmet | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 adorned | punct |
| 16 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wore | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 jewels | case |
| 18 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 adorned | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 plume | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 plume | det |
| 21 | plume | plume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 jewels | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 simple | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Emperor's dress | simple property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wear | past | Emperor | a light helmet of gold | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | adorn | participle | Emperor not said here | with jewels and a plume | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=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.
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