The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 103
She was the loveliest young princess, red and white, like milk and blood, with clear blue eyes and golden hair, but right in the middle of her forehead there was a little tuft of brown hair.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: be · To what, where: loveliest young princess, middle
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 princess | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 princess | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 4 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 princess | amod |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 princess | amod |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 red | punct |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 milk | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 white | cc |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 red | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 milk | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 milk | case |
| 13 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 princess | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 blood | cc |
| 15 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 milk | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eyes | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 18 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyes | amod |
| 19 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyes | amod |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 milk | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hair | cc |
| 22 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hair | amod |
| 23 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 milk | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 right | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 right | cc |
| 26 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 princess | parataxis |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 middle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 middle | det |
| 29 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 right | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 forehead | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 32 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 middle | nmod |
| 33 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 34 was | expl |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 right | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 tuft | det |
| 36 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 tuft | amod |
| 37 | tuft | tuft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 was | nsubj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 hair | case |
| 39 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 hair | amod |
| 40 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tuft | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | daughter | the loveliest young princess | like red milk and blood and clear blue eyes and golden hair | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the middle of daughter's forehead | right 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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