Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 7

She has a fine dress, it is true; but her face is not noble and kind.

Who acts: Rome, dress, face · What happens: have, be, not be · To what, where: fine dress

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 (Rome, dress, face), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dress	det
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dress	amod
5	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 true	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 true	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 true	cop
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dress	acl:relcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 noble	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 noble	cc
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 face	nmod:poss
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 noble	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 noble	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 noble	advmod
16	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 has	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kind	cc
18	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 noble	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Rome	a fine dress		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient
2	is	present	dress	a fine dress not said here	true property	tree rules
3	not is	present	Rome's face		noble property	tree rules
4	be		Rome's face not said here			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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