The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 29

She wore a ruff of black taffeta, a red velvet hood, and a farthingale all in rags, and she leaned heavily upon a crutch.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: wear, learn · To what, where: ruff, rags

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 (Queen), 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	2 wore	nsubj
2	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ruff	det
4	ruff	ruff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wore	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 taffeta	case
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 taffeta	amod
7	taffeta	taffeta	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ruff	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hood	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hood	det
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hood	amod
11	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hood	compound
12	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ruff	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 farthingale	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 farthingale	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 farthingale	det
16	farthingale	farthingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wore	obl
17	all	all	ADV	_	19 rags	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 rags	case
19	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wore	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 leaned	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 leaned	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 leaned	nsubj
23	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wore	conj
24	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	23 leaned	advmod
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 crutch	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 crutch	det
27	crutch	crutch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 leaned	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	Queen	a ruff of black taffeta and a red velvet hood		rags		a farthingale obl	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent ruff=Source
2	learn	past	Queen					upon a crutch; heavily property	vn learn-14-1 «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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