The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 62
‘Golden Hair The fields are green,’
Who acts: Hair fields · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hair fields), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 green | punct |
| 2 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Hair | amod |
| 3 | Hair | Hair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fields | compound |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fields | det |
| 5 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 green | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 green | cop |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 green | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 green | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Hair fields | green property | 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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