The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 69

Now the hair of the princess was very thick and long, and shone like the sun. And the girl combed it and combed it till it was brighter than ever.

Who acts: hair, girl · What happens: be, shine, comb · To what, where: hair

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, girl), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 thick	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hair	det
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thick	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 princess	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hair	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thick	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 thick	advmod
9	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 long	cc
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thick	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shone	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shone	cc
14	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 thick	conj
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 sun.	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun.	det
17	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shone	obl
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	21 combed	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 girl	det
20	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 combed	nsubj
21	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shone	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 combed	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 combed	cc
24	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 combed	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 combed	obj
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 brighter	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 brighter	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 brighter	cop
29	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 combed	advcl
30	than	than	ADP	_	31 ever	case
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 brighter	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hair of the princess		now	thick property	tree rules
2	be		the hair of the princess not said here				tree rules
3	shine	participle	the hair of the princess not said here			like the sun.	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	comb	past	the girl	hair			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	comb	past	the girl not said here	hair			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	is	past	hair			bright 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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