The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 28
She was kind-hearted and of a fair countenance, and she had a gold star right in the middle of her forehead.
Who acts: sister · What happens: be, have · To what, where: gold star, middle
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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 | 5 hearted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hearted | cop |
| 3 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hearted | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 kind | punct |
| 5 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 countenance | cc |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 countenance | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 countenance | det |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 countenance | amod |
| 10 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hearted | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hearted | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 star | det |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 star | compound |
| 17 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 18 | right | right | ADV | _ | 21 middle | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 middle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 middle | det |
| 21 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 forehead | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 24 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 middle | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hearted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sister | hearted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | sister | a gold star | the middle of sister's forehead | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=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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