The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 62
‘Here, my lord, is my wedding garment,’ answered Renelde, showing him the shift, which was the finest and whitest ever seen.
Who acts: wedding garment, shift · What happens: be, answer, show, see · To what, where: Renelde, shift, garment
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding garment, shift), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 answered | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lord | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lord | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lord | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 garment | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 garment | compound |
| 10 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 garment | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 garment | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Renelde | Renelde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 showing | punct |
| 16 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 answered | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 showing | iobj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shift | det |
| 19 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 showing | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 finest | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 finest | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 finest | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 finest | det |
| 24 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 shift | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 whitest | cc |
| 26 | whitest | white | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 finest | conj |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 seen | advmod |
| 28 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 whitest | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | my wedding garment | Renelde | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent renelde=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | show | gerund | my wedding garment not said here | the shift | garment | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shift=Topic | |||
| 4 | is | past | the shift | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the shift not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | see | participle | the shift not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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