Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 51

More golden was her hair than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave, and fairer were her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain.

Who acts: skin · What happens: be · To what, where: golden hair, fairer hands

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skin), 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	More	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 golden	advmod
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hair	cop
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hair	nmod:poss
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 flower	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flower	det
8	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hair	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 broom	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 broom	det
11	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flower	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 whiter	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 whiter	cc
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 skin	nmod:poss
15	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whiter	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 whiter	cop
17	whiter	white	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 hair	parataxis
18	than	than	ADP	_	20 foam	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 foam	det
20	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whiter	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 wave	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wave	det
23	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 foam	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fairer	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fairer	cc
26	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 hands	amod
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hands	cop
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hands	nmod:poss
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 whiter	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fingers	cc
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 fingers	nmod:poss
32	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hands	conj
33	than	than	ADP	_	35 blossoms	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 blossoms	det
35	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 whiter	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 anemone	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 anemone	det
38	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 anemone	compound
39	anemone	anemone	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 blossoms	nmod
40	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	42 spray	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 spray	det
42	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 anemone	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 fountain	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 fountain	det
45	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 fountain	compound
46	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 spray	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Olwen's golden hair	than the flower of the broom	tree rules
2	is	past	Olwen's skin		than the foam of the wave; than the blossoms of the wood anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain; white property	tree rules
3	is a	past		Olwen's fairer hands and Olwen's fingers		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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/17/51/