The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 43

She was the ugliest woman under the sun, and, added to it all, she had three heads.

Who acts: dragon · What happens: be, add, have · To what, where: ugliest woman, sun, three heads

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon), 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	5 woman	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woman	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	ugliest	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woman	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 added	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 added	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 added	punct
12	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 woman	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 added	obl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 it	det
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 added	conj
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 heads	nummod
20	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 had	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	dragon	the ugliest woman		the sun	tree rules
2	add speech: assert	participle	dragon not said here		sun		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to it=Co-Patient
3	have	past	dragon	three heads			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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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