The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 6

She was more frightful than tongue can tell; her hair was red as fire, and she had but one eye, and that not a pretty one!

Who acts: Queen, tongue, hair · What happens: be, tell, have · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Queen, tongue, hair), 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	4 frightful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightful	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 frightful	advmod
4	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 tell	mark
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 frightful	advcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 red	punct
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hair	nmod:poss
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 red	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 red	cop
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 frightful	appos
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 fire	case
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 red	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 red	conj
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 eye	cc
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 eye	nummod
22	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 red	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 one	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 one	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 one	mark
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 one	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 one	det
28	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 one	amod
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frightful	conj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 frightful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Queen	frightful property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	can	tongue		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Queen's hair	as fire; red property	tree rules
4	have	past	Queen		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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