The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 84

Some were fair and some were dark; some had chestnut hair, or curls darker still, and some had golden locks.

Who acts: Some · What happens: be, have · To what, where: chestnut hair, golden locks

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 (Some), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 fair	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fair	cop
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dark	cc
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 dark	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dark	cop
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fair	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fair	parataxis
11	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hair	compound
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 darker	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 darker	cc
15	curls	curl	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 darker	nsubj
16	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 had	conj
17	still	still	ADV	_	16 darker	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 darker	conj
22	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 locks	amod
23	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 had	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Some		fair property	tree rules
2	is	past	some		dark property	tree rules
3	have	past	some	chestnut hair		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
4	have	past	some	golden locks		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient

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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