The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 165

The interior was lit up with thousands and thousands of candles, and his wife was dressed in cloth of gold and was sitting on a much higher throne, and she wore three great golden crowns.

Who acts: wife · What happens: lit up, dress, sit, wear · To what, where: interior, wife, cloth, much higher throne, three great golden crowns

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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 interior	det
2	interior	interior	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lit	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lit	aux:pass
4	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 lit	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 thousands	case
7	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lit	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thousands	cc
9	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thousands	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 candles	case
11	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thousands	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dressed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dressed	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dressed	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dressed	aux:pass
17	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lit	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 cloth	case
19	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dressed	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 gold	case
21	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cloth	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sitting	cc
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sitting	aux
24	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 dressed	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	29 throne	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 throne	det
27	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 throne	amod
28	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 throne	amod
29	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sitting	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wore	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 wore	cc
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wore	nsubj
33	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lit	parataxis
34	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 crowns	nummod
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 crowns	amod
36	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 crowns	amod
37	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 wore	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lit up	past · passive		the interior		with thousands and thousands of candles	tree rules
2	dress	past · passive		flounder's wife	cloth of gold		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	sit	past · progressive			a much higher throne		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
4	wear	past	wife	three great golden crowns			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=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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