The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 38
Only her cheeks had no colour in them, but were as fair as her forehead.
Who acts: cheeks · What happens: have, be · To what, where: colour
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 (cheeks), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 colour | det |
| 6 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 colour | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fair | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 fair | cc |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fair | cop |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 fair | advmod |
| 13 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 forehead | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 16 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fair | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Snowflake's cheeks | no colour | in eyes = eye | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | Snowflake's cheeks not said here | as Snowflake's forehead; fair 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 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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