The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 6

She was dressed almost always in the prettiest frocks, as a fairy, or as a queen going out to hunt, and the ladies of the Court followed her dressed as forest fairies.

Who acts: queen, ladies · What happens: dress, go out, hunt, follow · To what, where: daughter, prettiest frocks

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (queen, ladies), 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 dressed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	aux:pass
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 always	advmod
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 dressed	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 frocks	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 frocks	det
8	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 frocks	amod
9	frocks	frock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dressed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fairy	punct
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 fairy	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fairy	det
13	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 going	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 going	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 going	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 queen	det
18	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 going	nsubj
19	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dressed	conj
20	out	out	ADV	_	19 going	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 hunt	mark
22	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 going	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 followed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 followed	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ladies	det
26	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 followed	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Court	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Court	det
29	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 ladies	nmod
30	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 followed	obj
32	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 her	acl
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 fairies	case
34	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fairies	compound
35	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 dressed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dress	past · passive		daughter	the prettiest frocks	as a fairy; always property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	go out	gerund	a queen			out property	tree rules
3	hunt	to-infinitive	a queen not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	follow	past	the ladies of the Court	daughter			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme
5	dress	participle				as forest fairies	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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