The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 37
Her skin was as white as snow, her eyes as blue as forget-me-nots, and her hair was long and golden.
Who acts: skin, eyes, hair · What happens: be, forget · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skin, eyes, hair), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 skin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 white | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 white | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 white | advmod |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 snow | case |
| 7 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 white | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 blue | punct |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 blue | nsubj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 blue | advmod |
| 12 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 white | conj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 forget | mark |
| 14 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 blue | advcl |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 me | punct |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 forget | obj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 me | punct |
| 18 | nots | not | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 forget | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 long | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 long | cc |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hair | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 long | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 long | cop |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 white | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 golden | cc |
| 26 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 long | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 white | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Snowflake's skin | as snow; white property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Snowflake's eyes | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | forget | infinitive | Snowflake's eyes not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Snowflake's hair | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | Snowflake's hair not said here | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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