The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 29

She was so thin that the light shone through her, and her eyes glowed like lamps; her skin was like a shark’s, her arms were thin as laths, and her fingers like spindles.

Who acts: Fairy, light, eyes, skin, arms · What happens: be, shine, glow

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 (Fairy, light, eyes, skin), 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 thin	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thin	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 thin	advmod
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 shone	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shone	nsubj
8	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thin	advcl
9	through	through	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shone	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 glowed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 glowed	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 glowed	nsubj
15	glowed	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thin	conj
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 lamps	case
17	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 glowed	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 shark	punct
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 skin	nmod:poss
20	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shark	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 shark	cop
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 shark	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 shark	det
24	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thin	conj
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 shark	case
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 thin	punct
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 arms	nmod:poss
28	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 thin	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 thin	cop
30	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thin	conj
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 laths	case
32	laths	lath	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 thin	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fingers	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fingers	cc
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 fingers	nmod:poss
36	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thin	obl
37	like	like	ADP	_	38 spindles	case
38	spindles	spindle	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fingers	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Fairy	Fairy's fingers like spindles obl; thin property	tree rules
2	shine	past	the light	through Fairy	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through she=Location
3	glow	past	Fairy's eyes	like lamps	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	Fairy's skin	like a shark	tree rules
5	is	past	Fairy's arms	as laths; thin property	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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