Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 47
She was clad in a robe of purple broidered with gold, of noble aspect, and of such a virtue that no one wearing it could be harmed by any poison.
Who acts: one, poison · What happens: clad, broider, wear, harm · To what, where: hair, robe, purple, gold, one
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, poison), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 clad | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clad | aux:pass |
| 3 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 robe | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 robe | det |
| 6 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clad | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 purple | case |
| 8 | purple | purple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 robe | nmod |
| 9 | broidered | broider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 purple | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broidered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 aspect | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 aspect | case |
| 14 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 aspect | amod |
| 15 | aspect | aspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broidered | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 virtue | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 virtue | cc |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 virtue | case |
| 19 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 virtue | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 virtue | det |
| 21 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clad | conj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 harmed | obj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 harmed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | wearing | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 one | acl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wearing | obj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 harmed | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 harmed | aux:pass |
| 29 | harmed | harm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 virtue | acl:relcl |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 poison | case |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 poison | det |
| 32 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 harmed | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clad | past · passive | hair | a robe of purple | such virtue conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | broider | participle | purple not said here | with gold; of noble aspect | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wear | gerund | no one not said here | gold | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | harm | could · passive | any poison | no one | such virtue obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer that=Result |
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: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (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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