The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 98

A wide stream flowed through the garden, and on it floated richly ornamented barges and gondolas filled with people dressed in the most elegant manner and covered with jewels.

Who acts: wide stream · What happens: flow, float, ornament, fill, dress, cover · To what, where: wide stream, garden, ornamented barges, people, elegant manner

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wide stream), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stream	det
2	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stream	amod
3	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 floated	nsubj
4	flowed	flow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stream	acl
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flowed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 floated	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 floated	cc
10	on	on	SCONJ	_	12 floated	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 floated	nsubj
12	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	richly	richly	ADV	_	14 ornamented	advmod
14	ornamented	ornament	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 barges	amod
15	barges	barge	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 floated	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gondolas	cc
17	gondolas	gondola	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 barges	conj
18	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 barges	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 people	case
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 filled	obl
21	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 people	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 manner	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 manner	det
24	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	25 elegant	advmod
25	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 manner	amod
26	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dressed	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 covered	cc
28	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 dressed	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 jewels	case
30	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 covered	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 floated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flow	participle		a wide stream not said here	the garden		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through garden=Location
2	float	past	a wide stream	ornamented barges and gondolas			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barge=Agent
3	ornament	participle				richly property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	fill	participle		ornamented barges and gondolas not said here		with people	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with people=Instrument
5	dress	participle		people not said here	the elegant manner		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cover	participle				with jewels	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=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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