The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 4
The youngest, who was the very picture of her father for courtesy and sweetness of temper, was withal one of the most beautiful girls ever seen.
Who acts: youngest · What happens: be, see · To what, where: picture, withal one, beautiful girls
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 (youngest), 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 youngest | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 picture | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 picture | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 picture | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 picture | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 picture | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 picture | advmod |
| 8 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | parataxis |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 father | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 picture | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 courtesy | case |
| 13 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 father | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sweetness | cc |
| 15 | sweetness | sweetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 father | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 temper | case |
| 17 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sweetness | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 picture | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | cop |
| 20 | withal | withal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 girls | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 girls | det |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 beautiful | advmod |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 girls | amod |
| 26 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 seen | advmod |
| 28 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 girls | acl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the youngest | the picture | of living's father for courtesy and sweetness of temper | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | withal one | of the beautiful girls | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | participle | the beautiful girls not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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