The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 39

The most beautiful landscapes looked like boiled spinach, and the best people looked repulsive or seemed to stand on their heads with no bodies; their faces were so changed that they could not be recognised, and if anyone had a freckle you might be sure it would be spread over the nose and mouth.

Who acts: beautiful landscapes, best people, anyone, you · What happens: look, boil, seem, stand, change, not recognise · To what, where: heads, faces, freckle, nose

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 (beautiful landscapes, best people, anyone, you), 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 landscapes	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 beautiful	advmod
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 landscapes	amod
4	landscapes	landscape	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 spinach	case
7	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 spinach	amod
8	spinach	spinach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 looked	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 looked	nsubj
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	parataxis
15	repulsive	repulsive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 looked	xcomp
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 seemed	cc
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 looked	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 stand	mark
19	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 seemed	xcomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 heads	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 heads	nmod:poss
22	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stand	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 bodies	case
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 bodies	det
25	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stand	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 changed	punct
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 faces	nmod:poss
28	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 changed	nsubj:pass
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 changed	aux:pass
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 changed	advmod
31	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 looked	parataxis
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 recognised	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 recognised	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 recognised	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 recognised	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 recognised	aux:pass
37	recognised	recognise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 changed	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 had	cc
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 had	mark
41	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 freckle	det
44	freckle	freckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obj
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 sure	nsubj
46	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 sure	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 sure	cop
48	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 had	parataxis
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 spread	nsubj:pass
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 spread	aux
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 spread	aux:pass
52	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 sure	ccomp
53	over	over	ADP	_	55 nose	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 nose	det
55	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 spread	obl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 mouth	cc
57	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 nose	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	the beautiful landscapes			like boiled spinach	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	boil	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	look	past	the best people			repulsive property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	seem	past	the best people not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	stand	to-infinitive	the best people not said here		people's heads	with no bodies	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location
6	change	past · passive		people's faces			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	not recognise	could · passive		faces = face			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
8	have a condition, not said to happen	past	anyone	a freckle			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freckle=Patient
9	is	might	you			sure property	tree rules
10	spread	would · passive		freckle	the nose and mouth		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over nose=Destination

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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