The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 38
She was laid upon a couch covered with cloth of gold, embroidered with pearls as big as nuts.”
What happens: lay, cover, embroider · To what, where: Fairy, couch
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | aux:pass |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 couch | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 couch | det |
| 6 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obl |
| 7 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 couch | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 cloth | case |
| 9 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cloth | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 embroidered | punct |
| 13 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 laid | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 pearls | case |
| 15 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 embroidered | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 big | advmod |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 embroidered | amod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 nuts | case |
| 19 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 big | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past · passive | Fairy | a couch | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon couch=Destination | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | a couch not said here | with cloth of gold | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | embroider | participle | with pearls | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=Theme |
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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