The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 5

The fact was he thought them very ugly, with their sun-burnt necks, their great red hands, their coarse petticoats and their wooden shoes.

Who acts: boy · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 fact	det
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	obl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	cop
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	obj
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 ugly	advmod
8	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thought	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 necks	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	15 necks	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 necks	nmod:poss
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 burnt	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 sun	punct
14	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 necks	amod
15	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thought	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hands	punct
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hands	amod
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hands	amod
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 necks	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 petticoats	punct
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 petticoats	nmod:poss
23	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 petticoats	amod
24	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hands	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 shoes	cc
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 shoes	nmod:poss
27	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 shoes	amod
28	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hands	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	boy					the fact obl; think, ugly property	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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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