The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 98

The red of your rubies will lie on its lips, and its skin will be clear and pale as your pearls.

Who acts: red rubies, skin, your · What happens: lie, be, pearl · To what, where: lips

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red rubies, skin, your), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rubies	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rubies	amod
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 rubies	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 rubies	nmod:poss
5	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lie	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lie	aux
7	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 lips	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 lips	nmod:poss
10	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lie	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 clear	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 clear	cc
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 skin	nmod:poss
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 clear	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 clear	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 clear	cop
17	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lie	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pale	cc
19	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 clear	conj
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 pearls	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 pearls	nmod:poss
22	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pale	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lie	future	your red rubies	ruby's lips		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lip=Location
2	is	future	ruby's skin		clear property	tree rules
3	be		ruby's skin not said here		as your pearls	tree rules
4	pearl		your			nom pearl «possession intransitive»: poss=agent

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: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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