The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 65
She grew tall and straight and pretty, with eyes like shining stars, and a skin as white as milk.
Who acts: Princess, eyes · What happens: grow, shine · To what, where: skin, stars
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, eyes), 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 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grew | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 straight | cc |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tall | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pretty | cc |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tall | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eyes | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grew | obl |
| 11 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 12 shining | mark |
| 12 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 eyes | acl |
| 13 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shining | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 skin | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 skin | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 skin | det |
| 17 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 white | case |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 skin | amod |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 milk | case |
| 21 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 white | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Princess | a skin | with eyes; tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | shine | gerund | eyes not said here | stars | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent star=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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