The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 43
This time she wore her dress embroidered with silver moons, and in her hair she placed a silver crescent.
Who acts: Helena · What happens: wear, embroider, place · To what, where: dress, silver crescent, hair
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wore | nsubj |
| 4 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dress | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | obj |
| 7 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dress | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 moons | case |
| 9 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 moons | compound |
| 10 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 embroidered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 placed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 placed | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hair | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hair | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | obl |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 placed | nsubj |
| 17 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wore | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 crescent | det |
| 19 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 crescent | amod |
| 20 | crescent | crescent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | Helena | Helena's dress | time | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | |||
| 2 | embroider | participle | Helena's dress not said here | with silver moons | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with moon=Theme | ||||
| 3 | place | past | Helena | a silver crescent | Helena's hair | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crescent=Theme in hair=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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