The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 49
At last Helena arrived in a dress all covered with gold and silver stars, and with a girdle of stars round her waist, and a band of stars in her hair.
What happens: arrive, cover · To what, where: last Helena
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: 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 | _ | 3 Helena | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Helena | amod |
| 3 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 dress | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dress | det |
| 7 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 arrived | conj |
| 9 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 all | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 covered | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stars | cc |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stars | compound |
| 14 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gold | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 girdle | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 girdle | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 girdle | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 girdle | det |
| 19 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 stars | case |
| 21 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 girdle | nmod |
| 22 | round | round | ADP | _ | 24 waist | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 waist | nmod:poss |
| 24 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 girdle | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 band | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 band | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 band | det |
| 28 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 stars | case |
| 30 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 band | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 hair | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hair | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 band | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | last Helena | in a dress | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | with gold and silver stars | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=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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