The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 135

Now, luckily, the Princess’s bed was entirely stuffed with phoenix feathers, which are very rare, and have the property of always floating upon water, so Rosette went on swimming about as if she had been in a boat.

Who acts: phoenix feathers, property, Rosette · What happens: stuff, be, have, float, go, swim · To what, where: bed, property, water

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (phoenix feathers, property, Rosette), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 stuffed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 luckily	punct
3	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	1 Now	fixed
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bed	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Princess	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stuffed	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stuffed	aux:pass
10	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	11 stuffed	advmod
11	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 feathers	case
13	phoenix	phoenix	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feathers	compound
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stuffed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rare	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 rare	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 rare	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 rare	advmod
19	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 feathers	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 have	cc
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 rare	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 property	det
24	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 floating	mark
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 floating	advmod
27	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 property	acl
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 water	case
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 floating	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 went	advmod
32	Rosette	Rosette	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 went	nsubj
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stuffed	conj
34	on	on	SCONJ	_	35 swimming	mark
35	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 went	advcl
36	about	about	ADV	_	35 swimming	advmod
37	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	44 boat	case
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 as	fixed
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 boat	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 boat	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 boat	cop
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 boat	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 boat	det
44	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 swimming	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 stuffed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stuff	past · passive		the Princess's bed		now	with phoenix feathers; entirely property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with feather=Theme
2	is	present	phoenix feathers				rare property	tree rules
3	have	infinitive		the property				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Patient
4	float	gerund	the property not said here		water		always property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon water=Trajectory
5	go	past	Rosette					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	swim	gerund	Rosette not said here				about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past · perfect	Rosette				as a boat	tree rules

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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