The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 56

A golden true-lover’s knot above the heart bore the motto, ‘But one can wound me,’ and the whole jewel was hung upon a chain of immense pearls.

Who acts: knot, one · What happens: bear, wound, hang · To what, where: motto, me, whole jewel, chain

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knot, one), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lover	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lover	amod
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lover	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct
5	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knot	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 lover	case
7	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bore	nsubj
8	above	above	ADP	_	10 heart	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heart	det
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knot	nmod
11	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 motto	det
13	motto	motto	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bore	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 motto	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 wound	punct
16	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 wound	cc
17	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wound	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 wound	aux
19	wound	wound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bore	parataxis
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 wound	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wound	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 wound	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hung	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 jewel	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 jewel	amod
26	jewel	jewel	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hung	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hung	aux:pass
28	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 bore	conj
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 chain	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 chain	det
31	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hung	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 pearls	case
33	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pearls	amod
34	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 chain	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 bore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bear	past	a golden true lover's knot above the heart	the motto		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motto=Patient
2	wound	can	one	me		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
3	hang	past · passive		the whole jewel	a chain of immense pearls	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon chain=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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