The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 10
She was cut out of paper, but she had on a dress of the finest muslin, with a scarf of narrow blue ribbon round her shoulders, fastened in the middle with a glittering rose made of gold paper, which was as large as her head.
Who acts: lady, scarf, gold paper · What happens: cut out, have, fasten, rise, make, be · To what, where: lady, paper, dress, scarf, middle
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, scarf, gold paper), 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 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | aux:pass |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 paper | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 paper | case |
| 6 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 dress | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dress | det |
| 13 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 muslin | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 muslin | det |
| 16 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 muslin | amod |
| 17 | muslin | muslin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dress | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 scarf | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 scarf | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 scarf | det |
| 21 | scarf | scarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 rose | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 ribbon | case |
| 23 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ribbon | amod |
| 24 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ribbon | amod |
| 25 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 scarf | nmod |
| 26 | round | round | ADP | _ | 28 shoulders | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 28 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 ribbon | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fastened | punct |
| 30 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 scarf | acl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 middle | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 middle | det |
| 33 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fastened | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 glittering | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 glittering | det |
| 36 | glittering | glittering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fastened | obl |
| 37 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | conj |
| 38 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 rose | xcomp |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 paper | case |
| 40 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 paper | compound |
| 41 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 made | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 large | punct |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 large | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 large | cop |
| 45 | as | as | ADV | _ | 46 large | advmod |
| 46 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 paper | amod |
| 47 | as | as | ADP | _ | 49 head | case |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 head | nmod:poss |
| 49 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 large | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut out | past · passive | lady | paper | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | lady | a dress of the finest muslin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fasten | participle | a scarf of narrow blue ribbon round lady's shoulders not said here | the middle | with a glittering | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with glittering=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | rise | past | a scarf of narrow blue ribbon round lady's shoulders | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | make | participle | a scarf of narrow blue ribbon round lady's shoulders not said here | of gold paper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 6 | is | past | gold paper | as lady's head; large property | tree rules |
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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