The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 54
On the rich silk cushions embroidered with gold a lovely maiden lay sleeping.
Who acts: lovely maiden lay · What happens: embroider, sleep · To what, where: rich silk cushions
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely maiden lay), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 cushions | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cushions | det |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cushions | amod |
| 4 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cushions | compound |
| 5 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cushions | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 embroidered | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lay | det |
| 10 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lay | amod |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lay | amod |
| 12 | lay | lay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 embroidered | obl:agent |
| 13 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 lay | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cushions | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embroider | participle | the rich silk cushions not said here | with gold | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sleep | gerund | a lovely maiden lay not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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