English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 51
They were all of gold and silver, with fretted work, and between them and around them, wreaths of flowers, composed of what do you think?
Who acts: you · What happens: fret, compose, think · To what, where: wreaths
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 all | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 all | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 all | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 silver | cc |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gold | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 work | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 work | case |
| 10 | fretted | fret | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 work | amod |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gold | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 them | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 them | cc |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 all | acl:relcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 them | cc |
| 17 | around | around | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 them | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wreaths | punct |
| 20 | wreaths | wreath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 all | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 flowers | case |
| 22 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wreaths | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 composed | punct |
| 24 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 wreaths | acl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 what | case |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 think | obj |
| 27 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 think | aux |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 think | nsubj |
| 29 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 composed | ccomp |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fret | participle | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | compose | participle | wreaths of flowers not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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: «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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