The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 65
She had laid aside all her ugly disguises and wore a white silken robe, and her golden hair shone in the soft lamp-light.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: lay, wear, shine · To what, where: ugly disguises, white silken robe, golden hair, soft lamp light
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (Princess), 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 | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | aux |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 3 laid | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 disguises | advmod |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 disguises | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 disguises | amod |
| 8 | disguises | disguise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 laid | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wore | cc |
| 10 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 robe | det |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 robe | amod |
| 13 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 robe | amod |
| 14 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wore | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hair | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hair | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hair | nmod:poss |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hair | amod |
| 19 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wore | obl |
| 20 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 hair | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 light | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 light | det |
| 23 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 light | amod |
| 24 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 light | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 lamp | punct |
| 26 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shone | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past · perfect | Princess | Princess's ugly disguises | aside property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | wear | past | Princess not said here | a white silken robe | Princess's golden hair obl | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | |||
| 3 | shine | participle | Princess's golden hair not said here | the soft lamp light | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location |
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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