The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 30
Nevertheless she wore rouge and patches, a mantle of silver brocade and a crown of diamonds, and her dress was covered with jewels, and green and pink ribbons.
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: wear, cover, crown · To what, where: rouge, dress, diamonds
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 (Fairy), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 3 wore | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wore | nsubj |
| 3 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rouge | rouge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wore | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 patches | cc |
| 6 | patches | patch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rouge | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mantle | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mantle | det |
| 9 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rouge | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 brocade | case |
| 11 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brocade | compound |
| 12 | brocade | brocade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mantle | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 crown | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 crown | det |
| 15 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brocade | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 diamonds | case |
| 17 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 crown | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 covered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 covered | cc |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 dress | nmod:poss |
| 21 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 covered | aux:pass |
| 23 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wore | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 jewels | case |
| 25 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 covered | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ribbons | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 ribbons | cc |
| 28 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ribbons | amod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pink | cc |
| 30 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 green | conj |
| 31 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wore | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | Fairy | rouge and patches and a mantle of silver brocade and a crown of diamonds | green ribbons obl; nevertheless property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent rouge=Source | |||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | Fairy's dress | with jewels | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with jewel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crown | diamonds | nom crown «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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