The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 59

It took her some time to decide which she admired the most, but at last she fixed upon a young prince, whose eyes were like the pools in the forest, and his hair of bright gold.

Who acts: It, bade, eyes · What happens: take, decide, admire, fix, be · To what, where: bade, last, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, bade, eyes), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 decide	mark
7	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 time	acl
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 admired	nsubj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 admired	nsubj
10	admired	admire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 decide	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 most	det
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 admired	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fixed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 fixed	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fixed	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fixed	nsubj
18	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 prince	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 prince	det
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 prince	amod
22	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fixed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pools	punct
24	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	25 eyes	nmod:poss
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pools	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 pools	cop
27	like	like	ADP	_	29 pools	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pools	det
29	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 prince	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 forest	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 forest	det
32	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pools	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 hair	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 hair	cc
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 hair	nmod:poss
36	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 gold	case
38	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 gold	amod
39	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hair	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It	bade		time	beautiful's hair of bright gold obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
2	decide	to-infinitive						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	admire	past						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	fix	past	bade		last		upon a young prince and the pools	vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at last=Value
5	is	past	the pools's eyes		the forest		like the pools	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 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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