The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 172

She had a low forehead, a flat nose, thick lips, coarse hair, and a skin not golden like that of Zizi, but the colour of clay.

Who acts: woman · What happens: have · To what, where: low forehead

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 forehead	det
4	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 forehead	amod
5	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nose	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 nose	det
8	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nose	amod
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forehead	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lips	punct
11	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lips	amod
12	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nose	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hair	punct
14	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hair	amod
15	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lips	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 golden	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 golden	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 skin	det
19	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 golden	nsubj
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 golden	advmod
21	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	conj
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 that	case
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 golden	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Zizi	case
25	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 that	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 colour	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 colour	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 colour	det
29	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 clay	case
31	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 colour	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	woman	a low forehead					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Patient

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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