The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 105

And her wish was granted, for not long after a little daughter was born to her, with a skin as white as snow, lips and cheeks as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony.

Who acts: Snow · What happens: grant, bear, wish · To what, where: wish, little daughter, Snow

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 granted	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wish	nmod:poss
3	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 granted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 granted	aux:pass
5	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 long	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 long	case
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 long	advmod
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 granted	advmod
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 born	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 daughter	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 daughter	amod
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 born	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 born	aux:pass
15	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 long	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 born	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 skin	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 skin	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 skin	det
21	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 granted	parataxis
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 white	case
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 skin	amod
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 snow	case
25	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 white	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lips	punct
27	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 skin	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 cheeks	cc
29	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lips	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 red	case
31	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lips	appos
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 blood	case
33	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 red	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 hair	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 hair	cc
36	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 granted	obl
37	as	as	ADP	_	38 black	case
38	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hair	amod
39	as	as	ADP	_	40 ebony	case
40	ebony	ebony	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 black	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 granted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grant	past · passive		Snow's wish		hair obl; long property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
2	bear	past · passive		a little daughter	Snow		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	wish		Snow				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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