The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 24

These were nothing less than diamonds, even to her shoes, which were covered with them, and her dress of silver brocade was embroidered with a dozen of the sun’s rays.

Who acts: sun · What happens: be, cover, embroider, ray · To what, where: nothing, shoes

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (sun), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 nothing	det
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nothing	cop
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 embroidered	nsubj:pass
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	6 diamonds	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 less	fixed
6	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nothing	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shoes	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	11 shoes	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 shoes	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shoes	nmod:poss
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nothing	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 covered	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 covered	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 covered	aux:pass
15	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 shoes	acl:relcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 covered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dress	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 dress	cc
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 dress	nmod:poss
21	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nothing	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 brocade	case
23	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 brocade	amod
24	brocade	brocade	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dress	nmod
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 embroidered	aux:pass
26	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 dozen	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 dozen	det
29	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 embroidered	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 rays	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sun	det
32	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rays	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 sun	case
34	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 dozen	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 embroidered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		nothing		tree rules
2	cover	past · passive		Queen's shoes	with shoes = shoe	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with they=Theme
3	embroider	past · passive		nothing	with a dozen of the sun's rays	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dozen=Theme
4	ray		the sun			nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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