The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 12
Certainly beauty is short-lived, and this funny little face and a green crape dress are a comical end to it.
Who acts: this, funny little face · What happens: live, face, be · To what, where: beauty, comical end, end
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, funny little face), 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | aux:pass |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lived | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 short | punct |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 face | cc |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 face | nsubj |
| 10 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 face | amod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 face | amod |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 end | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dress | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dress | det |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dress | amod |
| 16 | crape | crape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dress | compound |
| 17 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 face | conj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 end | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 20 | comical | comical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 end | amod |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 end | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · passive | beauty | certainly property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | ||||
| 2 | face | this | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | funny little face and a green crape dress | a comical end | end | tree rules |
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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