The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 16

She was quaintly dressed in a ruff and farthingale, and a velvet hood covered her snow-white hair.

Who acts: velvet hood · What happens: dress, cover · To what, where: woman, ruff, white hair

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (velvet hood), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dressed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dressed	aux:pass
3	quaintly	quaintly	ADV	_	4 dressed	advmod
4	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 ruff	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ruff	det
7	ruff	ruff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dressed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 farthingale	cc
9	farthingale	farthingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ruff	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 covered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 covered	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hood	det
13	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hood	compound
14	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 covered	nsubj
15	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dressed	conj
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hair	nmod:poss
17	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 white	obl
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 snow	punct
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hair	amod
20	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 covered	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	past · passive		woman		a ruff and farthingale		quaintly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	cover	past	a velvet hood	woman's white hair					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hair=Destination

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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