Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 93
Her garments and dress were woven with gold and silver, and the bright stone that was in the ring on her hand was as shining as the sun.
Who acts: bright stone · What happens: weave, shine · To what, where: garments, ring
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bright stone), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 garments | nmod:poss |
| 2 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 woven | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 dress | cc |
| 4 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 garments | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 woven | aux:pass |
| 6 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woven | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 silver | cc |
| 10 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gold | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stone | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stone | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stone | det |
| 14 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stone | amod |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woven | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 shining | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 shining | aux |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 ring | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ring | det |
| 20 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shining | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 hand | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shining | obl |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 shining | aux |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 shining | advmod |
| 26 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 stone | acl:relcl |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 sun. | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sun. | det |
| 29 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shining | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | past · passive | woman's garments and dress | with gold and silver; the bright stone obl | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | shine | past · progressive | the bright stone | the ring | on woman's hand; as the sun. | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ring=Location |
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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