The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 52
She dyed her red hair black, and painted her face.
Who acts: Grumbly · What happens: dye, paint · To what, where: red hair, face
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grumbly), 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 dyed | nsubj |
| 2 | dyed | dye | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hair | nmod:poss |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hair | amod |
| 5 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dyed | obj |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dyed | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 painted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 painted | cc |
| 9 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dyed | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 painted | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dye | past | Grumbly | Grumbly's red hair | black property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | |||
| 2 | paint | past | Grumbly not said here | Grumbly's face | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Destination |
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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