The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 5

Most of them were fair and fat and charming, but there was one who was dark-skinned and ugly, and spoke a strange language which nobody could understand.

Who acts: Most, one, nobody · What happens: be, charm, speak, understand · To what, where: strange language · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (Most, one, nobody), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 fair	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Most	nmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fair	cop
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fat	cc
7	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fair	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 charming	cc
9	charming	charm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 fair	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 was	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fair	parataxis
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 was	nsubj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 skinned	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 skinned	cop
17	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 skinned	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 dark	punct
19	skinned	skinned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 one	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ugly	cc
21	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 skinned	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spoke	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 spoke	cc
24	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fair	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 language	det
26	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 language	amod
27	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spoke	obj
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 understand	obj
29	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	31 understand	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 understand	aux
31	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 language	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Most of children			fair property	tree rules
2	be		Most of children not said here				tree rules
3	charm	gerund	Most of children not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	be	past	one		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past				skinned property	tree rules
6	be						tree rules
7	speak speech: other	past		a strange language			tree rules
8	understand	could	nobody	a strange language			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

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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