The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 112

We were very rich, because the other trees only dressed in summer, but we had green dresses in summer and in winter.

Who acts: We · What happens: be, dress, have · To what, where: other trees, green dresses

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 rich	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 rich	advmod
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dressed	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 dressed	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trees	amod
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dressed	nsubj:pass
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 dressed	advmod
11	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rich	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 summer	case
13	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dressed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	parataxis
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dresses	amod
19	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 summer	case
21	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 winter	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 winter	case
24	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 summer	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rich	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	We			rich property	tree rules
2	dress	participle · passive		the other trees	summer		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	have	past	we	green dresses	summer		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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