The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 300

Since that time there has always been plenty to eat in that country, and since that time, too, you see in the midst of the fair-haired blue-eyed women of Flanders a few beautiful girls, whose eyes are black and whose skins are the colour of gold.

Who acts: you, eyes, skins · What happens: have, be, eat, see · To what, where: plenty, country, midst, colour

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 (you, eyes, skins), 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	Since	since	SCONJ	_	4 there	mark
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 there	obl:unmarked
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	ccomp
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 plenty	advmod
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 plenty	cop
8	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 plenty	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 country	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 country	det
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 see	cc
16	since	since	ADP	_	18 time	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 time	punct
20	too	too	ADV	_	18 time	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 time	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
23	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 midst	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 midst	det
26	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	35 women	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 women	det
29	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 haired	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 fair	punct
31	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 women	amod
32	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 eyed	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 blue	punct
34	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 women	amod
35	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 midst	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Flanders	case
37	Flanders	Flander	PROPN	Number=Plur	35 women	nmod
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 girls	det
39	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 girls	amod
40	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 girls	amod
41	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 Flanders	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 black	punct
43	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	44 eyes	nmod:poss
44	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 black	nsubj
45	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 black	cop
46	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 girls	parataxis
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 colour	cc
48	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	49 skins	nmod:poss
49	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 colour	nsubj
50	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 colour	cop
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 colour	det
52	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 black	conj
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 gold	case
54	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 colour	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	participle		plenty			always property	tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive			that country			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	present	you		the midst of the haired eyed women of Flanders a few beautiful girls	time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	eyes				black property	tree rules
6	is a	present	the colour's skins	the colour			of gold	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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