The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 113

It was a lady, tall and slim, and glittering.

Who acts: cap · What happens: be, glitter

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cap), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tall	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tall	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lady	det
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tall	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tall	punct
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slim	cc
8	slim	slim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tall	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 glittering	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 glittering	cc
11	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 tall	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	cap	tall property	tree rules
2	be		cap not said here		tree rules
3	glitter	gerund	cap not said here		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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