The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 7

At last came a lady who was wrapped in a black mantle, and seemed to be in the deepest grief.

Who acts: lady · What happens: come, wrap, seem, be · To what, where: last, lady, black mantle, deepest grief

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 (lady), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	obl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lady	det
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 wrapped	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wrapped	aux:pass
8	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lady	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 mantle	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mantle	det
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mantle	amod
12	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrapped	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seemed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seemed	cc
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	21 grief	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 grief	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 grief	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 grief	det
20	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 grief	amod
21	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seemed	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	a lady		last	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	wrap	past · passive		a lady	a black mantle	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in mantle=Destination
3	seem	past				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive			the deepest grief	tree rules

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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