The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 64

She was combing her silver hair, and every hair that fell on the ground rang out like pure metal.

Who acts: girl, hair · What happens: comb, fall, ring out · To what, where: silver hair, ground

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, hair), 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	3 combing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 combing	aux
3	combing	comb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
5	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 combing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rang	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rang	cc
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 hair	det
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rang	nsubj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hair	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
16	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 combing	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 rang	compound:prt
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 metal	case
19	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 metal	amod
20	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rang	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 combing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	comb	past · progressive	girl	girl's silver hair			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	fall	past	every hair		the ground		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location
3	ring out	past	every hair			like pure metal	vn sound_emission-43.2 «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 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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