The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 186

She stained her face and dressed herself up as an old peddler wife, so that she was quite unrecognisable.

Who acts: SNOWDROP · What happens: stain, dress up, be · To what, where: face, SNOWDROP

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 (SNOWDROP), 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 stained	nsubj
2	stained	stain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stained	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dressed	cc
6	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stained	conj
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 dressed	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 dressed	compound:prt
9	as	as	ADP	_	13 wife	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wife	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wife	amod
12	peddler	peddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wife	compound
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dressed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 unrecognisable	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	20 unrecognisable	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 so	fixed
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 unrecognisable	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 unrecognisable	cop
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 unrecognisable	advmod
20	unrecognisable	unrecognisable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dressed	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stain	past	SNOWDROP	SNOWDROP's face		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Destination
2	dress up	past	SNOWDROP not said here	SNOWDROP	as a old peddler wife	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
3	is	past	SNOWDROP		unrecognisable 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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