The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 8

The poor woman was as white as marble, for she had been living almost in darkness; but when she saw her husband and children, the colour came back to her face, and she was as beautiful as ever.

Who acts: poor woman, darkness, woman, colour · What happens: be, live, see, come back · To what, where: darkness, husband, face

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor woman, darkness, woman, colour), 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	3 woman	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 white	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 white	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 white	advmod
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 marble	case
8	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 white	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 darkness	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 darkness	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 darkness	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 darkness	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 darkness	cop
14	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 darkness	acl
15	almost	almost	ADV	_	17 darkness	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 darkness	case
17	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 marble	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 saw	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 white	conj
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 husband	nmod:poss
24	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 children	cc
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 husband	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 colour	det
29	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	parataxis
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 came	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 face	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 face	nmod:poss
34	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 beautiful	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 beautiful	cc
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 beautiful	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 beautiful	cop
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 beautiful	advmod
40	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 came	conj
41	as	as	ADP	_	42 ever	case
42	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	40 beautiful	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 white	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the poor woman			as marble and darkness; white property	tree rules
2	live	gerund	darkness not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past · perfect	woman		darkness	almost property	tree rules
4	see	past	woman	woman's husband and children			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus
5	come back	past	the colour		woman's face		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to face=Initial_Location
6	is	past	colour			beautiful property	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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