The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 14

One was bright and glittering, and drawn by swans and peacocks, while the Fairy who sat in it was beautiful as a sunbeam; but the other was drawn by bats and ravens, and contained a frightful little Dwarf, who was dressed in a snake’s skin, and wore a great toad upon her head for a hood.

Who acts: One, Fairy, bats · What happens: be, glitter, draw, sit, contain, dress · To what, where: other, frightful little Dwarf, skin, great toad

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (One, Fairy, bats), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bright	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bright	cop
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 glittering	cc
5	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 bright	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 drawn	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 drawn	cc
8	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bright	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 swans	case
10	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drawn	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 peacocks	cc
12	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 swans	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 beautiful	punct
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 beautiful	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Fairy	det
16	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beautiful	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Fairy	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sat	obl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 beautiful	cop
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 drawn	advcl
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 sunbeam	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sunbeam	det
25	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beautiful	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 drawn	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 drawn	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 other	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 drawn	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 drawn	aux:pass
31	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bright	conj
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 bats	case
33	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 drawn	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ravens	cc
35	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bats	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 contained	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 contained	cc
38	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 drawn	parataxis
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 Dwarf	det
40	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Dwarf	amod
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Dwarf	amod
42	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 contained	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 dressed	punct
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 dressed	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 dressed	aux:pass
46	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 Dwarf	acl
47	in	in	ADP	_	51 skin	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 snake	det
49	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 skin	nmod:poss
50	’s	's	PART	_	49 snake	case
51	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 dressed	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 wore	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 wore	cc
54	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 contained	conj
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 toad	det
56	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 toad	amod
57	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 wore	obj
58	upon	upon	ADP	_	60 head	case
59	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 head	nmod:poss
60	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 wore	obl
61	for	for	ADP	_	63 hood	case
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 hood	det
63	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 wore	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bright	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	One			bright property	tree rules
2	glitter	gerund	One not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	draw	participle	One not said here			by swans and peacocks	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit	past	the Fairy			in Fairy	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location
5	is	past	the Fairy			as a sunbeam; beautiful property	tree rules
6	draw	past · passive	bats and ravens	the other			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
7	contain	past		a frightful little Dwarf			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dwarf=Theme
8	dress	past · passive		a frightful little Dwarf	a snake's skin		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	wear	past		a great toad		upon carbuncle's head; for a hood	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent toad=Source

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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