The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 54
His coat was nearly hidden under an embroidery of pearls and diamonds, his boots were solid gold, and from his helmet floated scarlet plumes.
Who acts: boots, scarlet plumes · What happens: hide, be, float, embroider · To what, where: coat, solid gold, helmet, pearls
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 (boots, scarlet plumes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:199): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 coat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hidden | aux:pass |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 hidden | advmod |
| 5 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 embroidery | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 embroidery | det |
| 8 | embroidery | embroidery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hidden | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pearls | case |
| 10 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 embroidery | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 diamonds | cc |
| 12 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pearls | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gold | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 boots | nmod:poss |
| 15 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gold | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gold | cop |
| 17 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gold | amod |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hidden | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 floated | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 floated | cc |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 helmet | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 23 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 floated | obl |
| 24 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hidden | conj |
| 25 | scarlet | scarlet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 plumes | amod |
| 26 | plumes | plume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 floated | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · passive | horse's coat | under a embroidery of pearls and diamonds; nearly property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under embroidery=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | horse's boots | solid gold | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | float | past | scarlet plumes | horse's helmet | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from helmet=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | embroider | pearls and diamonds | nom embroidery «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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