Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 46

Her hair was like shining gold, and her eyes bright as the eyes of a falcon, and the eyebrows above them fine and straight, her nose shapely, her cheeks well rounded, fair as a fleur-de-lys, but with delicate colour of rose; her mouth small and delicate with a chin suitably fashioned, and her shoulders straight and her bosom of a most dainty curve.

Who acts: hair, shoulders · What happens: shine, round, bosom · To what, where: gold, cheeks

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, shoulders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree 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	5 shining	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shining	aux
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	5 shining	mark
5	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shining	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bright	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bright	cc
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bright	nsubj
11	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shining	parataxis
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 eyes	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 eyes	det
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bright	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 falcon	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 falcon	det
17	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eyes	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fine	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fine	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 eyebrows	det
21	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fine	nsubj
22	above	above	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 eyebrows	nmod
24	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bright	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 straight	cc
26	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fine	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 nose	punct
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 nose	nmod:poss
29	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fine	parataxis
30	shapely	shapely	ADV	_	29 nose	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cheeks	punct
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 cheeks	nmod:poss
33	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shining	obl
34	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 rounded	advmod
35	rounded	round	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 cheeks	acl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fair	punct
37	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cheeks	conj
38	as	as	ADP	_	44 lys	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 lys	det
40	fleur	fleur	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lys	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 fleur	punct
42	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fleur	conj
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 fleur	punct
44	lys	ly	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 fair	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 colour	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 colour	cc
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 colour	case
48	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 colour	amod
49	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shining	conj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 rose	case
51	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 colour	nmod
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 small	punct
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 mouth	nmod:poss
54	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 small	nsubj
55	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shining	conj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 delicate	cc
57	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 small	conj
58	with	with	ADP	_	60 chin	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 chin	det
60	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 delicate	obl
61	suitably	suitably	ADV	_	62 fashioned	advmod
62	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 chin	amod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 bosom	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 bosom	cc
65	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 shoulders	nmod:poss
66	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 bosom	nsubj
67	straight	straight	ADV	_	70 bosom	advmod
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 bosom	cc
69	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	70 bosom	nmod:poss
70	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 small	parataxis
71	of	of	ADP	_	75 curve	case
72	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	75 curve	det
73	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	74 dainty	advmod
74	dainty	dainty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 curve	amod
75	curve	curve	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 bosom	nmod
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shining	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shine	past · progressive	Floripas's hair	gold	Floripas's cheeks obl; delicate colour of rose conj	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
2	round	participle		Floripas's cheeks not said here	well property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	bosom		Floripas's shoulders		of a dainty curve; Floripas nmod:poss; straight 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: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 46

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 46