The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 3

More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave, and fairer were her hands than the blossoms of the wood anemone.

Who acts: More yellow, skin · What happens: be · To what, where: head, fairer hands

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (More yellow, skin), 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	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 yellow	amod
2	yellow	yellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 head	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 head	cop
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 flower	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flower	det
8	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 head	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 broom	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 broom	det
11	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flower	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 whiter	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 whiter	cc
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 skin	nmod:poss
15	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whiter	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 whiter	cop
17	whiter	white	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 head	conj
18	than	than	ADP	_	20 foam	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 foam	det
20	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whiter	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 wave	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wave	det
23	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 foam	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fairer	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fairer	cc
26	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 hands	amod
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hands	cop
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hands	nmod:poss
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 whiter	obl
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 blossoms	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 blossoms	det
32	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 whiter	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 anemone	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 anemone	det
35	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 anemone	compound
36	anemone	anemone	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 blossoms	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 head	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	More yellow	maiden's head	than the flower of the broom	tree rules
2	is	past	maiden's skin		than the foam of the wave; than the blossoms of the wood anemone; white property	tree rules
3	is a	past		maiden's fairer hands		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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