English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 70

In her golden hair were pearls and precious stones; you could not see her waist for her golden girdle; and the golden fringe of her white dress came down over her lily feet.

Who acts: pearls, you, golden fringe · What happens: be, not see, come down · To what, where: golden hair, waist, lily feet

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pearls, you, golden fringe), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 hair	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 were	obl
5	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 were	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stones	cc
8	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stones	amod
9	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pearls	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 see	advmod
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 were	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 waist	nmod:poss
16	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 girdle	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 girdle	nmod:poss
19	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 girdle	amod
20	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fringe	det
24	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fringe	amod
25	fringe	fringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 dress	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 dress	nmod:poss
28	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dress	amod
29	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fringe	nmod
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 were	conj
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 came	advmod
32	over	over	ADP	_	35 feet	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 feet	nmod:poss
34	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 feet	compound
35	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 came	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	pearls and precious stones		princess's golden hair		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hair=Location
2	not see	could	you	princess's waist		for princess's golden girdle	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer waist=Stimulus
3	come down	past	the golden fringe of princess's white dress		princess's lily feet	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over foot=Initial_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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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