The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 187
Behind her came the Queen wearing a blue velvet robe embroidered with gold, and a diamond crown that was brighter than the sun itself.
Who acts: Queen, that · What happens: come, wear, embroider, be · To what, where: diamond crown, blue velvet robe
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, that), 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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 came | nmod:poss |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 6 | wearing | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Queen | acl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 robe | det |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 robe | amod |
| 9 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 robe | compound |
| 10 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wearing | obj |
| 11 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 robe | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 embroidered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 crown | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 crown | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 crown | det |
| 17 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crown | compound |
| 18 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 brighter | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 brighter | cop |
| 21 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 crown | amod |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 sun | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sun | det |
| 24 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brighter | obl |
| 25 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 24 sun | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Queen | a diamond crown | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wear | gerund | the Queen not said here | a blue velvet robe | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | embroider | participle | a blue velvet robe not said here | with gold | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | that | than the sun sun; bright property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/187/