English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 16
The mother in the bed was a beautiful lady, dressed up in white silk.
Who acts: mother · What happens: be, dress up · To what, where: beautiful lady, white silk
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lady | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bed | det |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mother | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lady | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lady | amod |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dressed | punct |
| 11 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lady | acl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 dressed | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 silk | case |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 silk | amod |
| 15 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dressed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lady | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the mother in the bed | a beautiful lady | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dress up | participle | a beautiful lady not said here | white silk | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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: «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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