The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 149
She put on her Rosette’s prettiest frock, and covered her with diamonds from head to foot.
Who acts: Rosette · What happens: put, cover · To what, where: prettiest frock, Rosette, head
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 frock | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Rosette | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Rosette | rosette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 frock | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Rosette | case |
| 7 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 frock | amod |
| 8 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 covered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 covered | cc |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 covered | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 diamonds | case |
| 14 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 covered | obl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 foot | case |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Rosette | Rosette's Rosette's prettiest frock | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on frock=Destination | ||||
| 2 | cover | past | Rosette not said here | Rosette | head | with diamonds; to foot | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with diamond=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 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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