The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 65
There he had her dressed in rich clothes, and her beauty shone out as bright as day, but not a word could be drawn from her.
Who acts: king, beauty · What happens: have, dress, shine out, draw · To what, where: dressed rich clothes, word
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, beauty), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 had | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 clothes | amod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 clothes | case |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 clothes | amod |
| 8 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shone | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shone | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 12 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shone | nsubj |
| 13 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 shone | compound:prt |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 bright | advmod |
| 16 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shone | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bright | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 drawn | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 drawn | cc |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 word | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 word | det |
| 23 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 drawn | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 drawn | aux:pass |
| 26 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | conj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 drawn | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | king | maiden's dressed rich clothes | there | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | |||
| 2 | dress | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | shine out | past | maiden's beauty | bright property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | draw | could · passive | a word | from maiden | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from she=Initial_Location |
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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