The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 12

The most beautiful thing of all, however, was a young girl who went about there, all alone.

Who acts: beautiful thing, young girl · What happens: be, go about · To what, where: young girl

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful thing, young 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 beautiful	advmod
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 girl	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 thing	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct
8	however	however	ADV	_	13 girl	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 however	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 girl	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 girl	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	amod
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 girl	acl:relcl
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 there	advmod
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 went	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 alone	punct
19	all	all	ADV	_	20 alone	advmod
20	alone	alone	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 girl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the beautiful thing of all	a young girl				however property	tree rules
2	go about	past	a young girl			there		alone property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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