The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 32
Great attention, too, was paid to her personal appearance, and her skin shone like satin, while her teeth were as white as pearls, and beautifully pointed.
Who acts: teeth · What happens: pay, shine, be, point · To what, where: Great attention, skin
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teeth), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 attention | amod |
| 2 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 too | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 attention | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 attention | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 paid | aux:pass |
| 7 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 appearance | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 10 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 appearance | amod |
| 11 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paid | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shone | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shone | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 skin | nmod:poss |
| 15 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shone | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 paid | parataxis |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 satin | case |
| 18 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shone | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 white | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 white | mark |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 white | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 white | cop |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 white | advmod |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shone | conj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 pearls | case |
| 27 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 white | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pointed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 pointed | cc |
| 30 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 31 pointed | advmod |
| 31 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 paid | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past · passive | Great attention | to lady's personal appearance | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 2 | shine | participle · passive | lady's skin | like satin | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | lady's teeth | as pearls; white property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | point | participle | beautifully property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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