The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 41

Her eyes were closed, but the bright colour in her face, and the movement of a ribbon, which rose and fell with her breath, left no doubt as to her being alive.

Who acts: movement · What happens: close, rise, fall, leave, be · To what, where: eyes, doubt

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 (movement), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 closed	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 closed	aux:pass
4	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 colour	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 colour	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 colour	det
8	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 colour	amod
9	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 closed	obl
10	in	in	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 colour	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rose	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rose	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 movement	det
16	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rose	nsubj:outer
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 ribbon	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 ribbon	det
19	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rose	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rose	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 rose	nsubj
22	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 closed	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 rose	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 breath	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 breath	nmod:poss
27	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 left	punct
29	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 rose	conj
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 doubt	det
31	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 left	obj
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 alive	mark
33	to	to	ADP	_	32 as	fixed
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 alive	nmod:poss
35	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 alive	cop
36	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 left	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 closed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	close	past · passive		girl's eyes	the bright colour in girl's face obl	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	rise	past	the movement		of a ribbon	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of ribbon=Initial_Location
3	fall	past	the movement not said here		with girl's breath	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	past	the movement not said here	no doubt		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Theme
5	is	gerund	the movement not said here		alive property	tree rules

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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