Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 55
Her cheeks were very pale, and her eyes were full of tears.
Who acts: cheeks, eyes · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheeks, eyes), 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 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pale | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pale | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pale | advmod |
| 5 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 full | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 full | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 full | cop |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pale | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tears | case |
| 13 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 full | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | girl's cheeks | pale property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | girl's eyes | of tears; full property | tree rules |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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