English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 2
The girl was as white as milk, and her lips were like cherries.
Who acts: girl, lips · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, lips), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 white | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 white | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 white | advmod |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 milk | case |
| 7 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 white | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cherries | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cherries | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lips | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cherries | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cherries | cop |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 cherries | case |
| 14 | cherries | cherry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 white | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 white | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the girl | as milk; white property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | girl's lips | like cherries | 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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