Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 14

For her only crown, long braids of soft brown hair were coiled about her head; and a tender smile lit up her noble face as she looked into her sons' proud eyes.

Who acts: walk, long braids, tender smile · What happens: crown, be, lit up, look · To what, where: noble face

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Cornelia's Jewels.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walk, long braids, tender smile), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 crown	mark
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crown	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 crown	advmod
4	crown	crown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 coiled	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crown	punct
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 braids	amod
7	braids	braid	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 coiled	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 hair	case
9	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hair	amod
10	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hair	amod
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 braids	nmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 coiled	cop
13	coiled	coiled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 head	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coiled	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 lit	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lit	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 smile	det
20	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 smile	amod
21	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lit	nsubj
22	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 coiled	parataxis
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 lit	compound:prt
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 face	nmod:poss
25	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 face	amod
26	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lit	obj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 looked	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 looked	nsubj
29	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lit	advcl
30	into	into	ADP	_	35 eyes	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 sons	nmod:poss
32	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 eyes	nmod:poss
33	'	's	PART	_	32 sons	case
34	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 eyes	amod
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 looked	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 coiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	crown	present	walk			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	long braids of soft brown hair		about walk's head; coiled property	tree rules
3	lit up	participle	a tender smile	walk's noble face		tree rules
4	look	past	walk		into walk's sons's proud eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme

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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