Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 187

She was often seen going to a basin of water to wash from her face the paint with which the ropedancers had red-dened her cheeks: indeed, she nearly rubbed off the skin in trying to wash away its fine brown tint, which she thought was some deep dye.

Who acts: MIGNON, fine brown tint · What happens: see, go, wash, dene, rub off, try · To what, where: MIGNON, basin, paint, face, ropedancers, skin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MIGNON, fine brown tint), 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	4 seen	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux:pass
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 seen	advmod
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 seen	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 basin	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 basin	det
8	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 basin	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 wash	mark
12	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	advcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 face	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 face	nmod:poss
15	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wash	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 paint	det
17	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wash	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 dened	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ropedancers	det
21	ropedancers	ropedancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dened	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dened	aux
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dened	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 red	punct
25	dened	dene	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 paint	acl:relcl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 cheeks	nmod:poss
27	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dened	obj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 indeed	punct
29	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 seen	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 rubbed	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 rubbed	nsubj
32	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	33 rubbed	advmod
33	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	conj
34	off	off	ADP	_	36 skin	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 skin	det
36	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rubbed	obl
37	in	in	SCONJ	_	38 trying	mark
38	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 rubbed	advcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 wash	mark
40	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 trying	xcomp
41	away	away	ADV	_	40 wash	advmod
42	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 tint	nmod:poss
43	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 tint	amod
44	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 tint	amod
45	tint	tint	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 wash	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 thought	punct
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 thought	nsubj
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 thought	nsubj
49	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 tint	parataxis
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 dye	cop
51	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	53 dye	det
52	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 dye	amod
53	dye	dye	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 thought	ccomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive		MIGNON		indeed, often property	tree rules
2	go	gerund	MIGNON not said here		a basin of water		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to basin=Initial_Location
3	wash	to-infinitive	MIGNON not said here	the paint	MIGNON's face		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent paint=Theme from face=Source
4	dene	past · perfect · passive		the ropedancers		with the paint	tree rules
5	rub off	past	MIGNON	the skin		nearly property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
6	try	gerund	MIGNON not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	wash away not said to happen	to-infinitive	MIGNON not said here	skin's fine brown tint		away property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	think speech: other	past	skin's fine brown tint				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is a	past		some deep dye			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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