Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 18

Her hair was black as ebony, her eye dark as night, yet full of light and brilliancy so peculiar to the daughters of the east.

Who acts: hair, eye · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, eye), 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	2 hair	nmod:poss
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 black	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 black	cop
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 ebony	case
6	ebony	ebony	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 black	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dark	punct
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eye	nmod:poss
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dark	nsubj
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 black	conj
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dark	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 full	punct
14	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	15 full	cc
15	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 black	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 light	case
17	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 full	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 brilliancy	cc
19	brilliancy	brilliancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 light	conj
20	so	so	SCONJ	_	21 peculiar	case
21	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 full	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 daughters	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 daughters	det
24	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 full	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 east	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 east	det
27	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 daughters	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 black	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	household's hair		as ebony; black property	tree rules
2	be		household's eye	night		tree rules
3	be		household's hair not said here		of light and brilliancy; so peculiar; to the daughters of the east	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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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