The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 37
Her pretty pink cheeks and long black hair alone kept their natural colour, otherwise she had become like a statue of pure gold.
Who acts: pretty pink cheeks, Lizina · What happens: keep, become · To what, where: natural colour
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty pink cheeks, Lizina), 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 | 4 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 2 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cheeks | amod |
| 3 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cheeks | amod |
| 4 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kept | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hair | cc |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hair | amod |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hair | amod |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cheeks | conj |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 hair | advmod |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 colour | nmod:poss |
| 12 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 colour | amod |
| 13 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 become | punct |
| 15 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 18 become | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 become | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 become | aux |
| 18 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 kept | conj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 statue | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 statue | det |
| 21 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 become | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gold | case |
| 23 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gold | amod |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 statue | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Lizina's pretty pink cheeks and long black hair | cheeks's natural colour | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past · perfect | Lizina | like a statue of pure gold; otherwise property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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