The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 40

She lay as though sleeping, and her long, fair hair seemed to wrap her round like some costly mantle.

Who acts: girl, long fair hair · What happens: lie, seem, wrap · To what, where: girl

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, long fair hair), 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 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	though	though	ADP	_	5 sleeping	case
5	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seemed	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hair	nmod:poss
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hair	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 long	punct
11	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hair	amod
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 wrap	mark
15	wrap	wrap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seemed	xcomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wrap	obj
17	round	round	ADV	_	15 wrap	advmod
18	like	like	ADP	_	21 mantle	case
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 mantle	det
20	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mantle	amod
21	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wrap	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	lie	past	girl		though sleeping	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seem	past	girl's long fair hair			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	wrap	to-infinitive	girl's long fair hair not said here	girl	like some costly mantle; round property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Destination

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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