The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 17

She took as many of her jewels as she could carry, and three of her most beautiful dresses, one embroidered with stars, one with moons, and the third with suns, all of pure gold.

Who acts: Helena · What happens: take, carry, embroider · To what, where: many, three

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helena), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 jewels	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 jewels	nmod:poss
7	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 many	nmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 carry	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carry	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 carry	aux
11	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 many	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 embroidered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 embroidered	cc
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 embroidered	nsubj:pass
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 dresses	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dresses	nmod:poss
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 beautiful	advmod
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dresses	amod
19	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 three	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 embroidered	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 embroidered	nsubj
22	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 stars	case
24	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 embroidered	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 stars	appos
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 moons	case
28	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 one	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 third	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 third	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 third	det
32	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 took	parataxis
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 suns	case
34	suns	sun	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 third	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 all	punct
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 suns	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 gold	case
38	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 gold	amod
39	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 all	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	Helena	many of Helena's jewels		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme
2	carry	could	Helena			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	embroider	participle · passive		three of Helena's beautiful dresses	with stars	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with star=Theme

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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