The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 40

His feathers were sky-blue and gold, his feet and his beak of such glittering rubies that no one could bear to look at them, his eyes made the brightest diamonds look dull, and on his head he wore a crown.

Who acts: feathers, one, eyes, brightest diamonds, Saphir · What happens: be, bear, look, make, wear · To what, where: sky blue, such glittering rubies, crown, head

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (feathers, one, eyes, brightest diamonds), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feathers	nmod:poss
2	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 blue	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blue	cop
4	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blue	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sky	punct
6	blue	blue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gold	cc
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blue	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feet	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feet	nmod:poss
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 blue	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 beak	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 beak	nmod:poss
14	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blue	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 rubies	case
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rubies	amod
17	glittering	glittering	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rubies	compound
18	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 beak	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 bear	obj
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bear	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bear	aux
23	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 rubies	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 look	mark
25	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 bear	xcomp
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 look	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 eyes	nmod:poss
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 made	nsubj
31	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bear	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 diamonds	det
33	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 diamonds	amod
34	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 look	nsubj
35	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 made	ccomp
36	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 look	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 wore	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 wore	cc
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 head	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 head	nmod:poss
41	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 wore	obl
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 wore	nsubj
43	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 made	conj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 crown	det
45	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 wore	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 blue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Saphir's feathers	sky blue and gold and Saphir's feet and Saphir's beak of such glittering rubies			tree rules
2	bear	could	no one	such glittering rubies			tree rules
3	look	to-infinitive	no one not said here			at feathers = feather	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
4	make	past	Saphir's eyes				tree rules
5	look	present	the brightest diamonds			dull property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	wear	past	Saphir	a crown	Saphir's head		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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