The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 110

Ashamed, she washed her face and her hands, which became whiter than ivory, and once again her lovely complexion took its natural freshness.

Who acts: Princess, hands, lovely complexion · What happens: wash, become, take · To what, where: face, natural freshness

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, hands, lovely complexion), 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	Ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 washed	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ashamed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 washed	nsubj
4	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 face	nmod:poss
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 washed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 became	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 became	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 became	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 washed	conj
13	whiter	white	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 became	xcomp
14	than	than	ADP	_	15 ivory	case
15	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 whiter	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 took	cc
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 again	advmod
19	again	again	ADV	_	23 took	advmod
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 complexion	nmod:poss
21	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 complexion	amod
22	complexion	complexion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 washed	conj
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 freshness	nmod:poss
25	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 freshness	amod
26	freshness	freshness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wash	past	Princess	Princess's face			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
2	become	past	Princess's hands			white property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	take	past	Princess's lovely complexion	hand's natural freshness	again		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freshness=Theme

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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