The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 259

Snowdrop lay a long time in the coffin, and she always looked the same, just as if she were fast asleep, and she remained as white as snow, as red as blood, and her hair as black as ebony.

Who acts: Snowdrop · What happens: lie, look, be, remain · To what, where: coffin, same

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	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 coffin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coffin	det
8	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 looked	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looked	nsubj
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 looked	advmod
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 same	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 looked	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asleep	punct
17	just	just	ADV	_	23 asleep	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 asleep	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 asleep	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asleep	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asleep	cop
22	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 asleep	advmod
23	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 looked	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 remained	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 remained	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 remained	nsubj
27	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	parataxis
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 white	advmod
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 remained	xcomp
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 snow	case
31	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 white	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 red	punct
33	as	as	ADP	_	34 red	case
34	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 remained	conj
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 blood	case
36	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 red	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 hair	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 hair	cc
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hair	nmod:poss
40	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	parataxis
41	as	as	ADP	_	42 black	case
42	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 hair	amod
43	as	as	ADP	_	44 ebony	case
44	ebony	ebony	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 black	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Snowdrop		the coffin	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in coffin=Location
2	look	past	SNOWDROP	the same			always property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute
3	is	past	SNOWDROP				asleep, fast property	tree rules
4	remain	past	SNOWDROP				white property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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