The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 72

The heavens are not a more beautiful blue, when they are girdled with clouds of gold, than was that lovely dress when it was unfolded.

Who acts: heavens · What happens: not be, girdle, be, unfold, cloud · To what, where: Fairies, heaven, gold

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 (heavens), 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 heavens	det
2	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 blue	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 blue	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 blue	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 blue	det
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 beautiful	advmod
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blue	amod
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 girdled	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 girdled	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 girdled	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 girdled	aux:pass
13	girdled	girdle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 blue	parataxis
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 clouds	case
15	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 girdled	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 gold	case
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 clouds	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dress	punct
19	than	than	ADP	_	23 dress	case
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dress	cop
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 dress	mark
22	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dress	amod
23	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 girdled	conj
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 unfolded	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 unfolded	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 unfolded	aux:pass
27	unfolded	unfold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 dress	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 blue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the heavens		blue property	tree rules
2	girdle	present · passive		Fairies = fairy	with clouds of gold	tree rules
3	is	past			than lovely dress	tree rules
4	unfold	past · passive		heaven		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	cloud			gold		nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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