The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 43
It was a magnificent tunic of orange velvet, embroidered in pearls, but the pearls were not so white as her own neck.
Who acts: tunic, pearls · What happens: be, embroider, not be · To what, where: magnificent tunic, orange velvet, pearls
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tunic, pearls), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tunic | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tunic | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tunic | det |
| 4 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tunic | amod |
| 5 | tunic | tunic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 velvet | case |
| 7 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 velvet | amod |
| 8 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tunic | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 embroidered | punct |
| 10 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 velvet | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pearls | case |
| 12 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 embroidered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 white | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 white | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pearls | det |
| 16 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 white | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 white | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 white | advmod |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 white | advmod |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tunic | parataxis |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 neck | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 neck | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 neck | amod |
| 24 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 white | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tunic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tunic | a magnificent tunic | of orange velvet | tree rules | |||
| 2 | embroider | participle | orange velvet not said here | pearls | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pearl=Destination | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | the pearls | as Ludovine's own neck; white property | 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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