English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 3
Her hair was like golden silk, and it hung to the ground.
Who acts: hair · What happens: be, hang
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 (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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 silk | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 silk | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 silk | case |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 silk | amod |
| 6 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hung | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hung | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hung | nsubj |
| 10 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 silk | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hung | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 silk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | girl's hair | like golden silk | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hang | past | hair | to the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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