The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 30
The master no longer wore the white garments of the day before, but a black jerkin, held in its place by a leathern girdle with huge clasps.
Who acts: master · What happens: wear, hold · To what, where: white garments, black jerkin, place
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wore | nsubj |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 4 longer | advmod |
| 4 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 wore | advmod |
| 5 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garments | det |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 garments | amod |
| 8 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wore | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 garments | nmod |
| 12 | before | before | ADV | _ | 11 day | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 jerkin | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 jerkin | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 jerkin | det |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 jerkin | amod |
| 17 | jerkin | jerkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wore | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 held | punct |
| 19 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 jerkin | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 place | nmod:poss |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 held | obl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 girdle | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 girdle | det |
| 25 | leathern | leathern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 girdle | amod |
| 26 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 held | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 clasps | case |
| 28 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 clasps | amod |
| 29 | clasps | clasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 girdle | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | the master | the white garments of the day | a black jerkin obl; long property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent garment=Source | |||
| 2 | hold | participle | a black jerkin not said here | master's place | by a leathern girdle with huge clasps | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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