The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 74
Helga, who was still the prettiest of the three, looked up.
Who acts: Helga · What happens: be, look up
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga), 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 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 prettiest | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 prettiest | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 prettiest | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 prettiest | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prettiest | det |
| 7 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 1 Helga | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 three | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 three | det |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 prettiest | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Helga | punct |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 looked | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Helga | still | of the three; pretty property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look up | past | Helga | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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