The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 107

The youth painted a mask that was the precise copy of them, and when he had put it on, no one would have known one boy from the other.

Who acts: youth, mask, sword · What happens: paint, be, put on, know · To what, where: mask, precise copy, one, other

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, mask, sword), 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	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 painted	nsubj
3	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mask	det
5	mask	mask	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 painted	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 copy	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 copy	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 copy	det
9	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 copy	amod
10	copy	copy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mask	acl:relcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 copy	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 put	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 put	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 put	aux
18	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 painted	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	18 put	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 known	punct
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 known	nsubj:pass
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 known	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 known	aux
26	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 painted	conj
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 boy	nummod
28	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 known	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 other	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 other	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 known	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 painted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	paint	past	the youth	a mask			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent mask=Destination
2	is a	past	a mask	the precise copy		of brothers = brother	tree rules
3	put on	past · perfect	sword	mask			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
4	know	would · perfect · passive		no one	the other		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: «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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