Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 27
Her lips were thin and beautifully curved: red lips in truth, red as winter berries and tempting as the fruits of summer.
Who acts: lips · What happens: be, curve
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 (lips), 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 lips | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thin | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thin | cop |
| 4 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 curved | cc |
| 6 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 7 curved | advmod |
| 7 | curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thin | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 lips | punct |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lips | amod |
| 10 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thin | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 truth | case |
| 12 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lips | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 red | punct |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lips | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 berries | case |
| 16 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 berries | compound |
| 17 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 red | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tempting | cc |
| 19 | tempting | tempting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 berries | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 fruits | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fruits | det |
| 22 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tempting | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 summer | case |
| 24 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fruits | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One's lips | red lips in truth obl; thin property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | curve | participle | One's lips not said here | beautifully property | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
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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