The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 5

But Laptitza, the youngest, with a skin as white as the foam on the milk, and with hair as soft as the finest lamb’s wool, was as beautiful as both her sisters put together--as beautiful as she alone could be.

Who acts: youngest · What happens: be, put together

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 youngest	cc
2	Laptitza	Laptitza	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 youngest	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 youngest	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youngest	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 put	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 skin	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 skin	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 skin	det
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 youngest	parataxis
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 white	case
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 skin	amod
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 foam	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 foam	det
14	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 white	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 milk	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 milk	det
17	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 foam	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 beautiful	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 beautiful	cc
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 hair	case
21	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 beautiful	obl
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 soft	case
23	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hair	amod
24	as	as	ADP	_	29 wool	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lamb	det
26	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 lamb	amod
27	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wool	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 lamb	case
29	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 soft	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hair	punct
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 beautiful	cop
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 beautiful	advmod
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 youngest	parataxis
34	as	as	ADP	_	37 sisters	case
35	both	both	CCONJ	_	37 sisters	cc:preconj
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 sisters	nmod:poss
37	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 beautiful	obl
38	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
39	together	together	ADV	_	38 put	advmod
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 beautiful	punct
41	as	as	ADP	_	42 beautiful	case
42	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 put	parataxis
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 be	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 be	nsubj
45	alone	alone	ADV	_	44 she	advmod
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 be	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 beautiful	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						with hair; as Laptitza's sisters; beautiful property	tree rules
2	put together	past	the youngest					together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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 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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