The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 96
She was given twelve servants, who each held a silken string which was fastened round her leg.
Who acts: twelve servants · What happens: give, hold, fasten · To what, where: coquetry, silken string
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twelve servants), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 servants | nummod |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 given | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 held | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 held | nsubj |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 who | appos |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 servants | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 string | det |
| 11 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 string | amod |
| 12 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fastened | aux:pass |
| 15 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 string | acl:relcl |
| 16 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 leg | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 leg | nmod:poss |
| 18 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fastened | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | coquetry | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient servant=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hold | past | twelve servants | a silken string | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fasten | past · passive | a silken string | round coquetry's leg | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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