The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 57

She was bent almost double, and was so wizened and wrinkled that she looked at least ninety; only her eyes were bright and quick as those of a girl.

Who acts: woman, eyes · What happens: bend, wizen, wrinkle, look, be · To what, where: woman, ninety, least

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bent	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bent	aux:pass
3	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 double	advmod
5	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bent	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wizened	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wizened	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wizened	aux:pass
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 wizened	advmod
10	wizened	wizen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bent	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wrinkled	cc
12	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 wizened	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 looked	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 looked	nsubj
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wrinkled	advcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 least	case
17	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 ninety	nmod
18	ninety	ninety	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looked	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 bright	punct
20	only	only	ADV	_	22 eyes	advmod
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 eyes	nmod:poss
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bright	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bright	cop
24	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bent	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 quick	cc
26	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bright	conj
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 those	case
28	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 quick	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 girl	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 girl	det
31	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 those	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bend	past · passive		woman		double property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material
2	wizen	past · passive					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»
3	wrinkle	participle					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	look	past	woman	ninety	least		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ninety=Attribute
5	is	past	woman's eyes			bright property	tree rules
6	be		woman's eyes not said here			as those	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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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