The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 56

And she began combing out the old woman's hair, which was long and white.

Who acts: mother, hair · What happens: begin, comb out, be · To what, where: hair

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, hair), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 began	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	combing	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 began	xcomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 combing	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hair	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 woman	case
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 combing	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 long	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 long	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 long	cop
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hair	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 white	cc
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 long	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	mother			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	comb out	gerund	mother not said here	the old woman's hair		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	is	past	the old woman's hair		long property	tree rules
4	be		the old woman's hair not said here			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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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