The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 15

She cut off all her beautiful long brown hair and dressed herself in boy’s clothes.

Who acts: idea · What happens: cut off, dress · To what, where: beautiful long brown hair, idea, clothes

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea), 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	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 cut	compound:prt
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 hair	det:predet
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hair	nmod:poss
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hair	amod
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hair	amod
8	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hair	amod
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dressed	cc
11	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	conj
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 dressed	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 clothes	case
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clothes	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 boy	case
16	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 dressed	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past	idea	idea's beautiful long brown hair					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hair=Eventuality
2	dress	past	idea not said here	idea		boy's clothes			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=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 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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