The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 49
He brought back the skirt, which was made of silk as blue as the skies of Spain.
Who acts: Kinglet · What happens: bring back, make · To what, where: skirt
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 (Kinglet), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 brought | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skirt | det |
| 5 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux:pass |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 skirt | acl:relcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 silk | case |
| 11 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 blue | case |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 made | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 skies | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 skies | det |
| 16 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Spain | case |
| 18 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 skies | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | past | Kinglet | the skirt | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent skirt=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the skirt | of silk; as blue; as the skies of Spain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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