The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 85
And when the soot and ashes had been washed from her face, she looked more beautiful than anyone in the world.
Who acts: Creature · What happens: wash, look · To what, where: soot, face
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 (Creature), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 washed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 soot | det |
| 4 | soot | soot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ashes | cc |
| 6 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 soot | conj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 washed | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 washed | aux:pass |
| 9 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 looked | advcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 face | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 washed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 washed | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 looked | xcomp |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 anyone | case |
| 19 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 beautiful | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 anyone | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | past · perfect · passive | the soot and ashes | Creature's face | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from face=Source | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Creature | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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