The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 81

When they reached the city they found it full of men and women who were dressed entirely in peacocks’ feathers, which were evidently thought prettier than anything else.

Who acts: Cockchafers · What happens: reach, find, dress, think · To what, where: city, men, feathers

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 (Cockchafers), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 city	det
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	obj
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 found	xcomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 men	case
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 full	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 women	cc
13	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 men	conj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 dressed	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dressed	aux:pass
16	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 men	acl:relcl
17	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	16 dressed	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 feathers	case
19	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 feathers	nmod:poss
20	’	's	PART	_	19 peacocks	case
21	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 dressed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thought	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 thought	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 thought	aux:pass
25	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	26 thought	advmod
26	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 feathers	acl:relcl
27	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 thought	xcomp
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 anything	case
29	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 prettier	obl
30	else	else	ADV	_	29 anything	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	Cockchafers = cockchafer	the city			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent city=Theme
2	find	past	Cockchafers = cockchafer	city		full property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	dress	past · passive		men and women	peacocks's feathers	entirely property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	think speech: other	past · passive		peacocks's feathers		evidently, pretty property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=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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