The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 48

It was embroidered with silver all over it, and it shone like the silver wood, and he gave her also a most beautiful horse, with housings embroidered with silver, and a bridle of silver too.

Who acts: gown, man · What happens: embroider, shine, give · To what, where: gown, silver, beautiful horse, Kari, housings

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gown, man), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 embroidered	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 embroidered	aux:pass
3	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 silver	case
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 embroidered	obl
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 it	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 embroidered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shone	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shone	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shone	nsubj
12	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 embroidered	parataxis
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 wood	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wood	det
15	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wood	compound
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shone	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gave	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	nsubj
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shone	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	iobj
22	also	also	ADV	_	26 horse	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 horse	det
24	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	25 beautiful	advmod
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 horse	amod
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 housings	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 housings	case
29	housings	housing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 gave	obl
30	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 housings	acl
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 silver	case
32	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 embroidered	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bridle	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 bridle	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bridle	det
36	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 embroidered	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 silver	case
38	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bridle	nmod
39	too	too	ADV	_	3 embroidered	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 embroidered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	embroider	past · passive		gown		silver	with silver; a bridle of silver obl	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme over it=Destination
2	shine	past	gown				like the silver wood	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past	man	a beautiful horse	Kari		with housings	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient horse=Theme
4	embroider	participle		housings not said here			with silver	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silver=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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