The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 2

She had two children, who were just like the two rose trees; one was called Snow-white and the other Rose-red, and they were the sweetest and best children in the world, always diligent and always cheerful; but Snow-white was quieter and more gentle than Rose-red.

Who acts: two, two children, trees, Snow white · What happens: have, be, call · To what, where: two children, one, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, two children, trees, Snow white), 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	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 children	nummod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rose	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 rose	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rose	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 two	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 two	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 two	det
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 rose	nsubj
12	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 children	acl:relcl
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rose	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 called	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 called	aux:pass
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	parataxis
18	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 white	obl
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Snow	punct
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 called	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sweetest	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sweetest	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sweetest	amod
24	Rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 red	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Rose	punct
26	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sweetest	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sweetest	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sweetest	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sweetest	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sweetest	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sweetest	det
32	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 called	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 children	cc
34	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 children	amod
35	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sweetest	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 world	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 world	det
38	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sweetest	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 diligent	punct
40	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	41 diligent	advmod
41	diligent	diligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sweetest	parataxis
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 cheerful	cc
43	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	44 cheerful	advmod
44	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 diligent	conj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 quieter	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 quieter	cc
47	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 white	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 Snow	punct
49	white	white	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 quieter	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 quieter	cop
51	quieter	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 had	conj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 more	cc
53	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	54 gentle	advmod
54	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 quieter	conj
55	than	than	ADP	_	58 red	case
56	Rose	Rose	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 red	compound
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 Rose	punct
58	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 quieter	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	two	two children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	is	past	two children			rise property	tree rules
3	call	past · passive		one		white property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	is	past	trees = tree		the world	sweet property	tree rules
5	is	past	Snow white			than Rose red; quiet property	tree rules
6	be		Snow white not said here				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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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