The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 26

Upon her head she wore a splendid crown, her lovely hair waved nearly to her feet, and her stately figure could easily be distinguished among all the ladies who attended her.

Who acts: Princess, ladies · What happens: wear, wave, distinguish, attend, figure · To what, where: splendid crown, lovely hair, feet, stately figure, Princess

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 (Princess, 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 head	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wore	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wore	nsubj
5	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crown	det
7	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crown	amod
8	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wore	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hair	punct
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hair	nmod:poss
11	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hair	amod
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crown	appos
13	waved	wave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 hair	acl
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	17 feet	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 feet	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 feet	nmod:poss
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 waved	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 distinguished	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 distinguished	cc
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 figure	nmod:poss
21	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 figure	amod
22	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 distinguished	nsubj:pass
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 distinguished	aux
24	easily	easily	ADV	_	26 distinguished	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 distinguished	aux:pass
26	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wore	conj
27	among	among	ADP	_	30 ladies	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 ladies	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ladies	det
30	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 distinguished	obl
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 attended	nsubj
32	attended	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ladies	acl:relcl
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 attended	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wear	past	Princess	a splendid crown		upon Princess's head	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme
2	wave	participle		Princess's lovely hair not said here	Princess's feet		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to foot=Recipient
3	distinguish	could · passive		Princess's stately figure		among all ladies; easily property	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme
4	attend	past	all ladies		Princess		vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Goal
5	figure		Princess				nom figure «communication 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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