The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 64
He came from the five fairies, and brought for the Princess a crown, a sceptre, and a robe of golden brocade, with a petticoat marvellously embroidered with butterflies’ wings.
Who acts: dwarf · What happens: come, bring, embroider · To what, where: crown, petticoat
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 (dwarf), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 fairies | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fairies | det |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 fairies | nummod |
| 6 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Princess | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 crown | det |
| 14 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sceptre | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sceptre | det |
| 17 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crown | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 robe | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 robe | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 robe | det |
| 21 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 brocade | case |
| 23 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 brocade | amod |
| 24 | brocade | brocade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 robe | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 petticoat | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 petticoat | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 petticoat | det |
| 28 | petticoat | petticoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | parataxis |
| 29 | marvellously | marvellously | ADV | _ | 30 embroidered | advmod |
| 30 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 petticoat | acl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 wings | case |
| 32 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 wings | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 32 butterflies | case |
| 34 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 embroidered | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | dwarf | from the five fairies | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from fairy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | dwarf not said here | a crown | for the Princess | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | |||
| 3 | embroider | participle | a petticoat not said here | with butterflies's wings; marvellously property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wing=Theme |
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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