The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 2
The eldest was so much like her in the face and humor that whoever looked upon the daughter saw the mother.
Who acts: The, face, daughter · What happens: be, look, see · To what, where: face, mother
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (The, face, daughter), 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 | 7 her | nsubj |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 1 The | nmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 her | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 her | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 face | det |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 her | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 humor | cc |
| 12 | humor | humor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 face | conj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 face | acl:relcl |
| 16 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 19 saw | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 daughter | det |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 looked | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mother | det |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 her | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | The | the face and humor | like widow | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | past | the face and humor | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | the daughter | the mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |
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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