The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 46

And as he watched, he noticed one girl, dressed in white with scarlet pomegranates in her hair, who seemed to him lovelier than all the rest.

Who acts: man, hair · What happens: watch, notice, dress, seem · To what, where: one girl, white, man

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (man, 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	_	7 noticed	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 watched	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 watched	nsubj
4	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 noticed	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 watched	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 noticed	nsubj
7	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 girl	nummod
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 noticed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dressed	punct
11	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 girl	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 white	case
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dressed	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 pomegranates	case
15	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pomegranates	compound
16	pomegranates	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 white	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 hair	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hair	nmod:poss
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pomegranates	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seemed	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 seemed	nsubj
22	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hair	acl:relcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seemed	obl
25	lovelier	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 seemed	xcomp
26	than	than	ADP	_	29 rest	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 rest	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rest	det
29	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lovelier	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	past	man					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	notice	past	man	one girl				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus
3	dress	participle		one girl not said here		white		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	seem	past	girl's hair		man		lovely property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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