The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 87

So the fisherman gave them each a lambskin cap which half covered their faces, and completely hid their golden hair and the stars on their foreheads, and led them to the court.

Who acts: fisherman, half · What happens: give, cover, hide, lead · To what, where: lambskin cap, boys, golden hair, foreheads, court

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, half), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fisherman	det
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 cap	det
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cap	det
8	lambskin	lambskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cap	compound
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 covered	obj
11	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 covered	nsubj
12	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cap	acl:relcl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 faces	nmod:poss
14	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 covered	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hid	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hid	cc
17	completely	completely	ADV	_	18 hid	advmod
18	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hair	nmod:poss
20	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hair	amod
21	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hid	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stars	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stars	det
24	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hair	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 foreheads	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 foreheads	nmod:poss
27	foreheads	forehead	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hid	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 led	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 led	cc
30	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 led	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 court	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 court	det
34	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 led	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	the fisherman	each lambskin cap	boys = boy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient cap=Theme
2	cover	past	half	each lambskin cap				tree rules
3	hide	past	the fisherman not said here	boys's golden hair and the stars		boys's foreheads	completely property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hair=Patient on forehead=Location
4	lead	past	the fisherman not said here	boys = boy		the court		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to court=Destination

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/87/