Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 52

Brighter were her glances than those of a falcon; her bosom was more snowy than the breast of the white swan, her cheek redder than the reddest roses.

Who acts: bosom, Olwen · What happens: be, bosom · To what, where: Brighter glances

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 (bosom, Olwen), 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	Brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 glances	amod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 glances	cop
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 glances	nmod:poss
4	glances	glance	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 those	case
6	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 glances	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 falcon	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 falcon	det
9	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 those	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 snowy	punct
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bosom	nmod:poss
12	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 snowy	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 snowy	cop
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 snowy	advmod
15	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 glances	conj
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 breast	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 breast	det
18	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 snowy	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 swan	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 swan	det
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 swan	amod
22	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 breast	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 redder	punct
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 redder	nmod:poss
25	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 redder	compound
26	redder	redder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 swan	appos
27	than	than	ADP	_	30 roses	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 roses	det
29	reddest	red	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 roses	amod
30	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 redder	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 glances	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Olwen's Brighter glances	than those	tree rules
2	is	past	Olwen's bosom		than the breast of the white swan; snowy property	tree rules
3	bosom		Olwen			nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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: «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.

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