Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 35
The beautiful girl remained silent, but there were tears in her eyes, and her face was white and red after each other.
Who acts: beautiful girl, tears, face · What happens: remain, be
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful girl, tears, face), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | nsubj |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 remained | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 were | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 were | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 were | expl |
| 9 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remained | conj |
| 10 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 were | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tears | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 white | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 white | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 face | nmod:poss |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 white | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 white | cop |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 remained | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 red | cc |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 white | conj |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 each | case |
| 23 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 19 white | obl |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 each | fixed |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the beautiful girl | silent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | tears in girl's eyes | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | girl's face | after each | white property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | girl's face not said here | 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.
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