The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 67
The Dwarf was rewarded with a gold piece, and decorated with so many ribbons that it was hardly possible to see him at all.
Who acts: glance · What happens: reward, decorate, be, see · To what, where: Dwarf, all
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 (glance), 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 Dwarf | det |
| 2 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rewarded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rewarded | aux:pass |
| 4 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 piece | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | compound |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rewarded | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 decorated | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 decorated | cc |
| 11 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rewarded | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 ribbons | case |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 many | advmod |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ribbons | amod |
| 15 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 decorated | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 possible | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 possible | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 possible | cop |
| 19 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 20 possible | advmod |
| 20 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 decorated | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 decorated | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 all | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 see | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rewarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reward | past · passive | the Dwarf | with a gold piece | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with piece=Theme | ||||
| 2 | decorate | participle | with many ribbons | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ribbon=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | glance | hardly, possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | dwarf | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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