Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 92

Her arms and hands were like the lime, her mouth as red as a strawberry when it is ripe, her foot was as small and as light as another one's hand, her form was smooth and slender, and her hair was falling down from her head in buckles of gold.

Who acts: arms, strawberry, foot, form, hair, woman · What happens: be, fall down, form · To what, where: head

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arms, strawberry, foot, form), 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 arms	nmod:poss
2	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lime	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hands	cc
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 arms	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lime	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 lime	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lime	det
8	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mouth	punct
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mouth	nmod:poss
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lime	appos
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 red	case
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mouth	nmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 strawberry	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 strawberry	det
16	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 red	obl
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 ripe	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ripe	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ripe	cop
20	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 red	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 small	punct
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 foot	nmod:poss
23	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 small	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 small	cop
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 small	case
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lime	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 light	cc
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 light	advmod
29	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 small	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	34 hand	case
31	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hand	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 one	case
34	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 light	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 smooth	punct
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 form	nmod:poss
37	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 smooth	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 smooth	cop
39	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 small	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 slender	cc
41	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 smooth	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 falling	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 falling	cc
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 hair	nmod:poss
45	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 falling	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 falling	aux
47	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 smooth	advcl
48	down	down	ADV	_	47 falling	advmod
49	from	from	ADP	_	51 head	case
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 head	nmod:poss
51	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 falling	obl
52	in	in	ADP	_	53 buckles	case
53	buckles	buckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 head	nmod
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 gold	case
55	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 buckles	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lime	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	woman's arms and hands		like the lime	tree rules
2	is	present	strawberry		ripe property	tree rules
3	is	past	woman's foot		small property	tree rules
4	be		woman's foot not said here		as another one's hand	tree rules
5	is	past	woman's form		smooth property	tree rules
6	be		woman's form not said here			tree rules
7	fall down	past · progressive	woman's hair	woman's head in buckles of gold	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from head=Initial_Location
8	form		woman			nom form «communication 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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