The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 84

He had curly golden hair and was very pale, and he wore a crown of peacocks’ feathers.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: have, be, wear, crown · To what, where: curly golden hair, crown, 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 (Prince), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pale	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pale	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 pale	advmod
9	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wore	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wore	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wore	nsubj
13	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 crown	det
15	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wore	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 feathers	case
17	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 feathers	nmod:poss
18	’	's	PART	_	17 peacocks	case
19	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 crown	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Prince	curly golden hair		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	is	past	Prince not said here		pale property	tree rules
3	wear	past	Prince	a crown of peacocks's feathers		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme
4	crown			peacocks's feathers		nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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