The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 146

Six lovely maidens with shining wings drew it by rose-coloured ribbons, while a whole flight of others, equally beautiful, were holding long garlands of roses crossed above it, so as to form a complete canopy.

Who acts: Six lovely maidens · What happens: shine, draw, hold, cross, form · To what, where: trouble, long garlands, roses, complete canopy

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Six lovely maidens), 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	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 maidens	nummod
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maidens	amod
3	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drew	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 wings	case
5	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 wings	amod
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drew	obl
7	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drew	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	13 ribbons	case
10	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coloured	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 rose	punct
12	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ribbons	amod
13	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drew	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flight	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 flight	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 flight	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flight	amod
18	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drew	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 others	case
20	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 flight	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 beautiful	punct
22	equally	equally	ADV	_	23 beautiful	advmod
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flight	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 holding	punct
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 holding	aux
26	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 drew	advcl
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 garlands	amod
28	garlands	garland	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 holding	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 roses	case
30	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 garlands	nmod
31	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 roses	acl
32	above	above	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 crossed	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 form	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	38 form	advmod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 form	mark
37	to	to	PART	_	38 form	mark
38	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 drew	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 canopy	det
40	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 canopy	amod
41	canopy	canopy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 form	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	draw	past	Six lovely maidens	trouble		with shining wings; by coloured ribbons; a whole flight of others obl	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	hold	past · progressive	Six lovely maidens not said here	long garlands of roses			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garland=Theme
4	cross	participle		roses not said here	trouble		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	form	to-infinitive	Six lovely maidens not said here	a complete canopy			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location canopy=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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