The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 81

Yes, surely that was she, sitting on a rock, in a black satin dress, and her face the colour of a Moorish woman’s.

Who acts: that, face · What happens: be, sit, colour · To what, where: river, rock

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, face), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:2476): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 she	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	surely	surely	ADV	_	6 she	advmod
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 she	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 she	cop
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sitting	punct
8	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 she	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 rock	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rock	det
11	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dress	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 dress	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dress	det
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dress	amod
16	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dress	compound
17	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 colour	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 colour	cc
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 face	nmod:poss
21	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 colour	nsubj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 colour	det
23	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 woman	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 woman	det
26	Moorish	Moorish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 woman	amod
27	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 colour	nmod
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 woman	case
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 she	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	river		surely property	tree rules
2	sit	gerund			a rock	in a black satin dress	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location
3	colour		river's face			of a Moorish woman	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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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