The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 40
When everything was ready for the feast, and the bride was dressed in the most beautiful embroidered dress to be found in Japan, the maids took hold of the helmet to lift it off her head, so that they might do her hair in the latest fashion.
Who acts: everything, maids, neighbours · What happens: be, dress, embroider, find, take, lift · To what, where: bride, beautiful embroidered dress, Japan, hold, head, hair
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, maids, neighbours), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 ready | advmod |
| 2 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 feast | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 feast | det |
| 7 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ready | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dressed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dressed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bride | det |
| 11 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dressed | aux:pass |
| 13 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ready | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 dress | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dress | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dress | amod |
| 18 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 dress | amod |
| 19 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dressed | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 found | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 found | aux:pass |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 dressed | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Japan | case |
| 24 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 took | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 maids | det |
| 27 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 took | nsubj |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dressed | conj |
| 29 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 helmet | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 helmet | det |
| 32 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hold | nmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 lift | mark |
| 34 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 took | advcl |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 lift | obj |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 38 head | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 head | nmod:poss |
| 38 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lift | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 do | punct |
| 40 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 44 do | mark |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 so | fixed |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 do | nsubj |
| 43 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 do | aux |
| 44 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 lift | conj |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 hair | nmod:poss |
| 46 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 do | obj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 fashion | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 fashion | det |
| 49 | latest | late | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 50 fashion | amod |
| 50 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 do | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everything | for the feast; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dress | past · passive | the bride | the beautiful embroidered dress | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive · passive | Japan | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» | |||||
| 5 | take | past | the maids | hold of the helmet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lift | to-infinitive | the maids not said here | hold | maid's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme off head=Destination | |||
| 7 | do | might | neighbours = neighbour | maid's hair | the latest fashion | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Eventuality | |||
| 8 | hold | the helmet | nom hold «act 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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