The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 45

Splendid clothing was given to her, and a horse, with hair partly of gold, partly of silver, and partly of something more precious still.

What happens: give · To what, where: Splendid clothing, girl

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. 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	Splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clothing	amod
2	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux:pass
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 given	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 horse	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 horse	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gold	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 gold	case
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gold	nsubj
14	partly	partly	ADV	_	16 gold	advmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 gold	case
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 silver	punct
18	partly	partly	ADV	_	20 silver	advmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 silver	case
20	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gold	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 partly	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 partly	cc
23	partly	partly	ADV	_	4 given	advmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 something	case
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 partly	obl
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 precious	advmod
27	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 something	amod
28	still	still	ADV	_	27 precious	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		Splendid clothing	girl			partly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to she=Recipient

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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