The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 6

The first is pure white, the second a foxy-red with a black head, the third coal black with a white head and feet.

Who acts: first · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first), 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 first	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 white	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 white	cop
4	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 white	amod
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 second	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 second	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 white	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 red	det
10	foxy	foxy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 red	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 foxy	punct
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 second	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 head	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 head	det
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 head	amod
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 red	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 coal	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 coal	det
19	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 coal	amod
20	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 head	conj
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 coal	amod
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 head	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 head	det
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 head	amod
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 black	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 feet	cc
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 head	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 white	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the first					white property	tree rules
2	be		the first not said here						tree rules

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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