The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 41

The lady in the golden dress appeared to him once more, holding in one hand two young laurel trees, a cherry laurel and a rose laurel, and in the other hand a little golden rake, a little golden bucket, and a silken towel.

Who acts: lady · What happens: appear, hold · To what, where: Gazer, other hand, two young laurel trees, one hand

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 dress	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dress	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dress	amod
6	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lady	nmod
7	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 appeared	obl
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 appeared	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 holding	punct
13	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 appeared	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hand	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 hand	nummod
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holding	obl
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 trees	nummod
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 trees	amod
19	laurel	laurel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 trees	compound
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 holding	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 laurel	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 laurel	det
23	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laurel	compound
24	laurel	laurel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 trees	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 laurel	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 laurel	det
27	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 laurel	compound
28	laurel	laurel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laurel	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hand	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 hand	cc
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 hand	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hand	det
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hand	amod
34	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	obl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 rake	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 rake	amod
37	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 rake	amod
38	rake	rake	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hand	appos
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 bucket	punct
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 bucket	det
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 bucket	amod
42	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 bucket	amod
43	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rake	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 towel	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 towel	cc
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 towel	det
47	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 towel	amod
48	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rake	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the lady in the golden dress		Gazer	the other hand			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location
2	hold	gerund	the lady in the golden dress not said here	two young laurel trees a cherry laurel and a rose laurel		one hand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in hand=Location

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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