The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 45

She had a cocked hat upon her head; from under it her long green hair--just the colour of the sea--fell down behind, without hindrance to her dancing.

Who acts: heaven · What happens: have, fall down, dance · To what, where: cocked hat, long green hair

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heaven), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hat	det
4	cocked	cocked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hat	amod
5	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hat	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 hair	punct
10	from	from	SCONJ	_	16 hair	mark
11	under	under	ADP	_	16 hair	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hair	nsubj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hair	nmod:poss
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hair	amod
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hair	amod
16	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 colour	punct
18	just	just	ADV	_	20 colour	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 colour	det
20	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hair	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 sea	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sea	det
23	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 colour	nmod
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 fell	punct
25	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 fell	advmod
27	behind	behind	ADV	_	25 fell	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hindrance	punct
29	without	without	ADP	_	30 hindrance	case
30	hindrance	hindrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fell	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 dancing	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 dancing	nmod:poss
33	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hindrance	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	heaven	a cocked hat	heaven's long green hair and the colour of the sea	upon heaven's head	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Patient
2	fall down	past	heaven not said here			without hindrance to heaven's dancing; behind, down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dance		heaven				nom dancing «act transitive»: 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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