The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 61

His silken clothes were of the brightest flame colour, richly trimmed with gold fringes and lace; a golden girdle was round his waist, while his head was encircled with a crown of gold, and precious stones twinkled about him like stars in a winter’s night, and in place of his wooden stick he held a finely worked golden staff.

Who acts: silken clothes, golden girdle, precious stones, friend · What happens: be, trim, encircle, twinkle, hold, work · To what, where: brightest flame colour, head, worked golden staff, place, gold

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 (silken clothes, golden girdle, precious stones, friend), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 clothes	nmod:poss
2	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clothes	amod
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 colour	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 colour	cop
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 colour	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 colour	det
7	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 colour	amod
8	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 colour	compound
9	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trimmed	punct
11	richly	richly	ADV	_	12 trimmed	advmod
12	trimmed	trim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 colour	acl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 fringes	case
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fringes	compound
15	fringes	fringe	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 trimmed	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lace	cc
17	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fringes	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 waist	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 girdle	det
20	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 girdle	amod
21	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 waist	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 waist	cop
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 waist	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 waist	nmod:poss
25	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trimmed	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 encircled	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 encircled	mark
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 encircled	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 encircled	aux:pass
31	encircled	encircle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 trimmed	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 crown	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 crown	det
34	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 encircled	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 gold	case
36	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 crown	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 twinkled	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 twinkled	cc
39	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 stones	amod
40	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 twinkled	nsubj
41	twinkled	twinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 colour	conj
42	about	about	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 twinkled	obl
44	like	like	ADP	_	45 stars	case
45	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 twinkled	obl
46	in	in	ADP	_	50 night	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 winter	det
48	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 night	nmod:poss
49	’s	's	PART	_	48 winter	case
50	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 twinkled	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 held	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 held	cc
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 place	case
54	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 held	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	58 stick	case
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 stick	nmod:poss
57	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 stick	amod
58	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 place	nmod
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 held	nsubj
60	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 colour	conj
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 staff	det
62	finely	finely	ADV	_	63 worked	advmod
63	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	65 staff	amod
64	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 staff	amod
65	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 held	obj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 colour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	friend's silken clothes				of the brightest flame colour	tree rules
2	trim	participle		the brightest flame colour not said here			with gold fringes and lace; richly property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fringe=Theme
3	is	past	a golden girdle				round friend's waist	tree rules
4	encircle	past · passive		friend's head			with a crown of gold	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with crown=Theme
5	twinkle	past	precious stones			night	about friend; like stars	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about he=Location
6	hold	past	friend	a worked golden staff	place of friend's wooden stick			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent staff=Theme in place=Location
7	work	participle					finely property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	crown			gold				nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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 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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