The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 192

‘Good wares, fine wares,’ she answered; ‘laces of every shade and description,’ and she held one up that was made of some gay coloured silk.

Who acts: Good wares, SNOWDROP · What happens: answer, hold, make · To what, where: laces, one, that

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good wares, SNOWDROP), 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	_	3 wares	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wares	amod
3	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 answered	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wares	punct
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wares	amod
6	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wares	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wares	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wares	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	nsubj
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 laces	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 laces	punct
13	laces	lace	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 answered	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 shade	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 shade	det
16	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laces	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 description	cc
18	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shade	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laces	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 held	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 held	nsubj
23	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	conj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 held	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	28 made	mark
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 made	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 made	aux:pass
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 held	advcl
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 silk	case
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 silk	det
31	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 silk	amod
32	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 silk	amod
33	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Good wares and fine wares	laces of every shade and description		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lace=Eventuality
2	hold	past	SNOWDROP	one		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	make	past · passive		that	of some gay coloured silk	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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