The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 19
The Queen and her ladies set to work to prepare presents for the fairies who were invited: for each one a blue velvet cloak, a petticoat of apricot satin, a pair of high-heeled shoes, some sharp needles, and a pair of golden scissors.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: set, work, prepare, invite, heel · To what, where: presents, fairies
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (Queen), 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 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ladies | cc |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Queen | conj |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 work | mark |
| 8 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 set | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 prepare | mark |
| 10 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 work | xcomp |
| 11 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 prepare | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 fairies | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fairies | det |
| 14 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 prepare | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 invited | aux:pass |
| 17 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 fairies | acl:relcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 cloak | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cloak | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cloak | det |
| 23 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cloak | amod |
| 24 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cloak | compound |
| 25 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 petticoat | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 petticoat | det |
| 28 | petticoat | petticoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cloak | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 satin | case |
| 30 | apricot | apricot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 satin | compound |
| 31 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 petticoat | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 pair | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 pair | det |
| 34 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cloak | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 shoes | case |
| 36 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 heeled | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 high | punct |
| 38 | heeled | heel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 shoes | amod |
| 39 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 pair | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 needles | punct |
| 41 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 needles | det |
| 42 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 needles | amod |
| 43 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 shoes | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 pair | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 pair | cc |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 pair | det |
| 47 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cloak | conj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 scissors | case |
| 49 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 scissors | amod |
| 50 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 pair | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the Queen and Queen's ladies | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | the Queen and Queen's ladies not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | prepare | to-infinitive | the Queen and Queen's ladies not said here | presents | for the fairies | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent present=Product for fairy=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | invite | past · passive | the fairies | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | heel | participle | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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