The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 37

All this time Turritella was spreading out lace, and jewels, and rich brocades, and ribbons before Fiordelisa’s unwilling eyes, and taking good care to display King Charming’s ring, which she wore upon her thumb.

Who acts: Turritella, ring · What happens: spread out, take, display, wear · To what, where: lace, good care, ring

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turritella, ring), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 time	det:predet
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spreading	obl:unmarked
4	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 spreading	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spreading	aux
6	spreading	spread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 spreading	compound:prt
8	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spreading	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 jewels	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 jewels	cc
11	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spreading	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 brocades	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 brocades	cc
14	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 brocades	amod
15	brocades	brocade	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spreading	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ribbons	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ribbons	cc
18	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 brocades	conj
19	before	before	ADP	_	23 eyes	case
20	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 eyes	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 Fiordelisa	case
22	unwilling	unwilling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eyes	amod
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 brocades	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 taking	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 taking	cc
26	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 spreading	conj
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 care	amod
28	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taking	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 display	mark
30	display	display	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 taking	advcl
31	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 ring	nmod:poss
32	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 King	flat
33	’s	's	PART	_	31 King	case
34	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 display	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wore	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 wore	nsubj
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 wore	nsubj
38	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 ring	acl:relcl
39	upon	upon	ADP	_	41 thumb	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 thumb	nmod:poss
41	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wore	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spreading	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spread out	past · progressive	Turritella	lace	time		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lace=Theme
2	take	gerund	Turritella not said here	good care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	display	to-infinitive	Turritella not said here	King's ring			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
4	wear	past	King's ring			upon Fiordelisa's thumb	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

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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