The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 133
She had on a great golden crown which was three yards high and set with brilliants and sparkling gems.
Who acts: wife, great golden crown · What happens: have, be, set · To what, where: great golden crown
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, great golden crown), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 crown | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crown | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crown | amod |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crown | amod |
| 7 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 high | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 high | cop |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 yards | nummod |
| 11 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 high | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crown | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 high | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 brilliants | case |
| 16 | brilliants | brilliant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 set | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gems | cc |
| 18 | sparkling | sparkling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gems | amod |
| 19 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 brilliants | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | wife | a great golden crown | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a great golden crown | three yards obl:unmarked; high property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | a great golden crown not said here | with brilliants and sparkling gems | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with brilliant=Instrument |
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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