The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 112

“Yes, here is the first, and here is the second, and here is the third, too,” said Cinderlad, and he took all three apples out of his pocket, and with that drew off his sooty rags, and appeared there before them in his bright golden armor, which gleamed as he stood.

Who acts: Cinderlad, bright golden armor · What happens: be, say, take, draw off, appear, gleam · To what, where: three apples, pocket, sooty rags, bright golden armor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cinderlad, bright golden armor), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 here	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 said	parataxis
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 here	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 first	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 here	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 here	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 here	cc
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 here	conj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 here	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 second	det
13	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 here	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 here	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 here	cc
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 here	conj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 here	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 third	det
19	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 here	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 too	punct
21	too	too	ADV	_	4 here	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 took	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 took	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	nsubj
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 said	parataxis
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 apples	det
31	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 apples	nummod
32	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 took	obj
33	out	out	ADP	_	36 pocket	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 pocket	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 pocket	nmod:poss
36	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 drew	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 drew	cc
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 that	case
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 drew	obl
41	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 took	conj
42	off	off	ADP	_	41 drew	compound:prt
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 rags	nmod:poss
44	sooty	sooty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 rags	amod
45	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 drew	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 appeared	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 appeared	cc
48	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 took	conj
49	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 appeared	advmod
50	before	before	ADP	_	51 them	case
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 appeared	obl
52	in	in	ADP	_	56 armor	case
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 armor	nmod:poss
54	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 armor	amod
55	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 armor	amod
56	armor	armor	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 appeared	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 gleamed	punct
58	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 gleamed	nsubj
59	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 armor	acl:relcl
60	as	as	SCONJ	_	62 stood	mark
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 stood	nsubj
62	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 gleamed	advcl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present					the first obl; the third obl; here property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present					the second obl:unmarked; here property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Cinderlad					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take	past	Cinderlad	all three apples	Cinderlad's pocket			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent apple=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location
5	draw off	past	Cinderlad not said here	Cinderlad's sooty rags			with that	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rag=Theme
6	appear	past	Cinderlad not said here		Cinderlad's bright golden armor; there	before apples = apple		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location
7	gleam	past	Cinderlad's bright golden armor					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	stand	past	Cinderlad					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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