The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 55

They all sang, they danced, they played from morning to night; only the princess noticed that day by day the fresh young faces of her maidens grew pale and wan, and the mirror in the great marble hall showed her that she alone still kept her rosy bloom, while Brunhilda and the rest faded visibly.

Who acts: Veils, princess, fresh young faces, mirror, Brunhilda · What happens: sing, dance, play, notice, grow, show · To what, where: princess, rosy bloom

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Veils, princess, fresh young faces, mirror), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sang	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sang	advmod
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 danced	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 danced	nsubj
6	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sang	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 played	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 played	nsubj
9	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 danced	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 morning	case
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 played	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 played	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 noticed	punct
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 princess	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 noticed	nsubj
18	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sang	conj
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 noticed	obl:unmarked
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 day	case
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 grew	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 faces	det
24	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 faces	amod
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 faces	amod
26	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 grew	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 maidens	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 maidens	nmod:poss
29	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 faces	nmod
30	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 noticed	parataxis
31	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 grew	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 wan	cc
33	wan	wan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pale	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 showed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 showed	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 mirror	det
37	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 showed	nsubj
38	in	in	ADP	_	42 hall	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 hall	det
40	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 hall	amod
41	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hall	compound
42	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 mirror	nmod
43	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 grew	conj
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 showed	iobj
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 kept	mark
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 kept	nsubj
47	alone	alone	ADV	_	46 she	advmod
48	still	still	ADV	_	49 kept	advmod
49	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 showed	advcl
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 bloom	nmod:poss
51	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 bloom	amod
52	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 kept	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 faded	punct
54	while	while	SCONJ	_	59 faded	mark
55	Brunhilda	Brunhilda	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 faded	nsubj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 faded	cc
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 rest	det
58	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 faded	nsubj
59	faded	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 kept	conj
60	visibly	visibly	ADV	_	59 faded	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	Veils = veil					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dance	past	Veils = veil					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	play	past	Veils = veil			morning; night		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	notice	past	the princess			day		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	grow	past	the fresh young faces of princess's maidens			day	pale property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	show	past	the mirror in the great marble hall		princess			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
7	keep	past	princess	princess's rosy bloom		still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloom=Theme
8	fade	past	Brunhilda				visibly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	bloom		princess					nom bloom «process intransitive»: poss=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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