The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 10
Now, the King had a daughter, who was just as beautiful as her dead mother, and had just such golden hair.
Who acts: King, daughter · What happens: have, be · To what, where: daughter, such golden hair
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, daughter), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 daughter | det |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beautiful | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 beautiful | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 beautiful | cop |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 beautiful | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 beautiful | advmod |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 mother | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mother | amod |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beautiful | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 hair | advmod |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hair | amod |
| 23 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hair | amod |
| 24 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the King | a daughter | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | a daughter | as _'s dead mother; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the King not said here | such golden hair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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 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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