Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 33
"The finest black satin that can be found, and red shoes for my feet."
What happens: find · To what, where: finest black satin
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 satin | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 satin | det |
| 3 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 satin | amod |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 satin | amod |
| 5 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 found | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 found | aux:pass |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 satin | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shoes | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shoes | cc |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shoes | amod |
| 13 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 satin | appos |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shoes | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 satin | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 satin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | can · passive | the finest black satin | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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