The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 6

The youngest of the three brothers, whose name was Ferko, was a beautiful youth, with a splendid figure, blue eyes, fair hair, and a complexion like milk and roses.

Who acts: name, Ferko · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Ferko, beautiful youth

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Ferko), 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	2 youngest	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 youth	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 brothers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brothers	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 brothers	nummod
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 youngest	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Ferko	punct
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 name	nmod:poss
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Ferko	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Ferko	cop
11	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 brothers	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 youngest	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 youth	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 youth	det
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 youth	amod
16	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 figure	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 figure	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 figure	det
20	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 figure	amod
21	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 youth	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eyes	punct
23	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 eyes	amod
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 figure	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hair	punct
26	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hair	amod
27	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 figure	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 complexion	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 complexion	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 complexion	det
31	complexion	complexion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 youth	conj
32	like	like	ADP	_	33 milk	case
33	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 complexion	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 roses	cc
35	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 milk	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 youth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ferko's name	Ferko		tree rules
2	is a	past		a beautiful youth and a complexion like milk and roses	the youngest of the three brothers obl	tree rules
3	name		Ferko			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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