The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 8

The pink and white of her face reminded you of the shells of her palace, while her long black hair was intertwined with strings of coral, and her dress of green silk seemed formed out of the sea.

Who acts: face · What happens: remind, intertwine, form · To what, where: you, long black hair, pink, sea

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pink	det
2	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 formed	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 white	cc
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pink	conj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 reminded	mark
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reminded	nsubj
8	reminded	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 white	advcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 reminded	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 shells	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shells	det
12	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reminded	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 palace	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 palace	nmod:poss
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shells	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 intertwined	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 intertwined	mark
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hair	nmod:poss
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hair	amod
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hair	amod
21	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 intertwined	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 intertwined	aux:pass
23	intertwined	intertwine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 reminded	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 strings	case
25	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 intertwined	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 coral	case
27	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 strings	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 seemed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 seemed	cc
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 dress	nmod:poss
31	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seemed	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 silk	case
33	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 silk	amod
34	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dress	nmod
35	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 formed	aux:pass
36	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
37	out	out	ADP	_	40 sea	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 sea	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sea	det
40	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 formed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 formed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	remind speech: other	past	Groac’h's face		you		of the shells of Groac’h's palace	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient of shell=Topic
2	intertwine	past · passive		Groac’h's long black hair			with strings of coral	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with string=Co-Patient
3	form	past · passive		the pink		the sea		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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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