The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 51

She has all the beauty of gentleness and contentment in her sweet face; and if at times it seems less lovely through some chance grief or disquietude, the hardest thing that one ever hears said is:

Who acts: Fairy, it, one · What happens: have, seem, hear, say · To what, where: beauty, chance grief, hardest thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, it, one), 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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 beauty	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beauty	det
5	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 gentleness	case
7	gentleness	gentleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beauty	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 contentment	cc
9	contentment	contentment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gentleness	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 face	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 face	nmod:poss
12	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 face	amod
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 contentment	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 seems	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seems	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 times	mark
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 times	case
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 seems	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seems	nsubj
20	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
21	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 lovely	advmod
22	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 seems	xcomp
23	through	through	ADP	_	26 grief	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 grief	det
25	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grief	compound
26	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seems	obl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 disquietude	cc
28	disquietude	disquietude	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grief	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 thing	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 thing	det
31	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 thing	amod
32	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grief	conj
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 hears	obj
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hears	nsubj
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 hears	advmod
36	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 thing	acl:relcl
37	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 hears	ccomp
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 said	aux:pass
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Fairy	all beauty of gentleness and contentment in Fairy's sweet face				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Patient
2	seem	present	it		some chance grief or disquietude and the hardest thing		lovely property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	hear	present	one	the hardest thing		ever		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present · passive						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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