The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 72

Indeed, she was so pretty that it was a real pleasure to look at her.

Who acts: arrangement · What happens: be, look · To what, where: real pleasure

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 (arrangement), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 pretty	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pretty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pretty	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 pretty	advmod
6	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 pleasure	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pleasure	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pleasure	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pleasure	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pleasure	amod
12	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pretty	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 look	mark
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pleasure	acl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pretty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	arrangement		indeed, pretty property	tree rules
2	is a	past		a real pleasure		tree rules
3	look	to-infinitive	arrangement not said here		at arrangement	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme

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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