Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 26

Her teeth were white as snow and of an evenness to marvel at.

Who acts: teeth · What happens: be, marvel

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teeth), 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 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 white	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 white	cop
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 snow	case
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 white	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 evenness	cc
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 evenness	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 evenness	det
10	evenness	evenness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snow	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 marvel	mark
12	marvel	marvel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 evenness	acl
13	at	at	ADP	_	12 marvel	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 white	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	One's teeth					as snow and a evenness; white property	tree rules
2	marvel	to-infinitive	One's teeth not said here						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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