The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 89

At the first blow all the ragged garments which he had worn in the kitchen fell from off Minnikin, at the second blow the brass garments fell off, and at the third the silver raiment, and there he stood in the golden raiment, which was so bright and splendid that light flashed from it.

Who acts: brass, Ritter, golden raiment, light · What happens: blow, wear, fall, garment, fall off, stand · To what, where: ragged garments, kitchen, second blow, golden raiment, brass

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (brass, Ritter, golden raiment, light), 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	At	at	SCONJ	_	4 blow	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 blow	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 blow	amod
4	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 garments	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garments	det
7	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 garments	amod
8	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blow	obj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 worn	nsubj:pass
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 worn	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 worn	aux
12	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 garments	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 kitchen	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kitchen	det
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	obl
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 worn	advcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 Minnikin	case
18	off	off	ADP	_	19 Minnikin	case
19	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 fell	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 blow	punct
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 blow	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 blow	det
23	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 blow	amod
24	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 brass	det
26	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 garments	nsubj
27	garments	garment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 blow	acl:relcl
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 garments	ccomp
29	off	off	ADP	_	28 fell	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 raiment	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 raiment	cc
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 third	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 third	det
34	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	37 raiment	amod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 raiment	det
36	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 raiment	amod
37	raiment	raiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blow	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 stood	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 stood	cc
40	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	42 stood	expl
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 stood	nsubj
42	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blow	conj
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 raiment	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 raiment	det
45	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 raiment	amod
46	raiment	raiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 stood	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 bright	punct
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 bright	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 bright	cop
50	so	so	ADV	_	51 bright	advmod
51	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 raiment	parataxis
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 splendid	cc
53	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 bright	conj
54	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 light	det
55	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 flashed	nsubj
56	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 bright	conj
57	from	from	ADP	_	58 it	case
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 flashed	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	blow	imperative		all ragged garments		the third silver raiment obl	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent garment=Patient
2	wear	past · perfect · passive		all ragged garments			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
3	fall	past			the kitchen	from Minnikin; at the second blow	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Location
4	garment	present	the brass	the second blow not said here			tree rules
5	fall off	past	the brass not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	stand	past	Ritter		the golden raiment; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in raiment=Location
7	is	past	the golden raiment			bright property	tree rules
8	be		the golden raiment not said here				tree rules
9	flash	past	that light		brass		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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