The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 48

Then the nurse dressed her in a robe of pale green and gold brocade, and combed out her long fair hair till it floated round her like a golden mantle, and put on her head a crown of roses and jasmine with emerald leaves.

Who acts: nurse, hair · What happens: dress, comb out, float, put, crown · To what, where: Princess, robe, long fair hair, crown, head, roses

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse, hair), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 dressed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nurse	det
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dressed	nsubj
4	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dressed	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 robe	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 robe	det
8	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dressed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	14 brocade	case
10	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 brocade	amod
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 brocade	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gold	cc
13	gold	gold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 green	conj
14	brocade	brocade	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 robe	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 combed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 combed	cc
17	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dressed	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 combed	compound:prt
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hair	nmod:poss
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hair	amod
21	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hair	amod
22	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 combed	obj
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	25 floated	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 floated	nsubj
25	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 combed	advcl
26	round	round	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 floated	obl
28	like	like	ADP	_	31 mantle	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 mantle	det
30	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mantle	amod
31	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 floated	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 put	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 put	cc
34	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dressed	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 head	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 head	nmod:poss
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 crown	det
39	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 roses	case
41	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 crown	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 jasmine	cc
43	jasmine	jasmine	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 roses	conj
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 leaves	case
45	emerald	emerald	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 leaves	compound
46	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 jasmine	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	past	the nurse	Princess	a robe of pale green brocade	then		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	comb out	past	the nurse not said here	nurse's long fair hair				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	float	past	hair				round nurse; like a golden mantle	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round she=Trajectory
4	put	participle	the nurse not said here	a crown of roses and jasmine with emerald leaves	nurse's head			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme on head=Destination
5	crown			roses and jasmine with emerald leaves				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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