English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 17
The little baby was still more beautiful than before, and its clothes were made of a sort of silvery gauze.
Who acts: little baby · What happens: be, make, sort · To what, where: clothes, silvery gauze
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 (little baby), 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 | 3 baby | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 baby | amod |
| 3 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beautiful | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 beautiful | advmod |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 before | case |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 beautiful | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 beautiful | advcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sort | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sort | det |
| 18 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 gauze | case |
| 20 | silvery | silvery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gauze | amod |
| 21 | gauze | gauze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sort | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the little baby | still | beautiful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past · passive | silk's clothes | of a sort of silvery gauze | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | sort | silvery gauze | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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