The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 256

So they had a coffin made of transparent glass, and they laid her in it, and wrote on the lid in golden letters that she was a royal Princess.

Who acts: dwarfs, SNOWDROP · What happens: have, make, lay, write, be · To what, where: coffin, SNOWDROP, glass, lid, royal Princess

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 (dwarfs, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coffin	det
5	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 coffin	acl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 glass	case
8	transparent	transparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 glass	amod
9	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laid	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laid	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laid	nsubj
13	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laid	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laid	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wrote	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wrote	cc
19	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 lid	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lid	det
22	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wrote	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 letters	case
24	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 letters	amod
25	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wrote	obl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 Princess	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 Princess	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 Princess	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 Princess	det
30	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Princess	amod
31	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wrote	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	dwarfs = dwarf	a coffin			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Patient
2	make	participle		a coffin not said here		of transparent glass	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	lay	past	dwarfs = dwarf	SNOWDROP	glass		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in it=Destination
4	write	past	dwarfs = dwarf not said here		the lid	in golden letters	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on lid=Destination
5	is a	past	SNOWDROP	a royal Princess			tree rules

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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