Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 57
"A dress red as a rose from the waist down, and white as snow from the waist up; a cape of green on my shoulders; and a hat on my head with a red, a white, and a green feather in it; and shoes for my feet with the toes red, the middle white, and the backs and heels green."
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.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 red | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 red | det |
| 3 | dress | dress | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 red | amod |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 rose | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rose | det |
| 7 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 red | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 waist | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 waist | det |
| 10 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | nmod |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 red | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 white | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 white | cc |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 red | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 snow | case |
| 16 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 white | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 waist | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 waist | det |
| 19 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 white | obl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 white | compound:prt |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 cape | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cape | det |
| 23 | cape | cape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 red | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 green | case |
| 25 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cape | amod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 shoulders | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 28 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 green | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 hat | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 hat | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 hat | det |
| 32 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cape | conj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 head | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 head | nmod:poss |
| 35 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hat | nmod |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 feather | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 feather | det |
| 38 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 feather | amod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 white | punct |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 white | det |
| 41 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 red | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 feather | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 feather | cc |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 feather | det |
| 45 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 feather | amod |
| 46 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hat | nmod |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 it | case |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 feather | nmod |
| 49 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 shoes | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 shoes | cc |
| 51 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 hat | conj |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 54 feet | case |
| 53 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 feet | nmod:poss |
| 54 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 shoes | nmod |
| 55 | with | with | ADP | _ | 57 toes | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 toes | det |
| 57 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 shoes | nmod |
| 58 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 toes | amod |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 white | punct |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 white | det |
| 61 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 white | amod |
| 62 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 hat | parataxis |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 69 green | punct |
| 64 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 69 green | cc |
| 65 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 66 backs | det |
| 66 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 69 green | nsubj |
| 67 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 68 heels | cc |
| 68 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 66 backs | conj |
| 69 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 white | conj |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 hat | punct |
| 71 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 cape | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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