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Legends of the Northwest, The Game of Ball. [2], sentence 26

For her face was as fair as a beautiful dream, And her voice like the song of the mountain stream; And her eyes like the stars when they glow and gleam.

Who acts: stars, mountain stream · What happens: be, glow, sing

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Game of Ball. [2]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stars, mountain stream), 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

casenmod:possoblcopadvmodcasedetamodoblpunctccnmod:possparataxiscasedetnmodcasedetcompoundnmodpunctccnmod:possconjcasedetnmodmarknsubjadvclccconjpunctrootForADPherPRONfaceNOUNwasAUXasADVfairADJasADPaDETbeautifulADJdreamNOUN,PUNCTAndCCONJherPRONvoiceNOUNlikeADPtheDETsongNOUNofADPtheDETmountainNOUNstreamNOUN;PUNCTAndCCONJherPRONeyesNOUNlikeADPtheDETstarsNOUNwhenSCONJtheyPRONglowVERBandCCONJgleamNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ForforADP_3 facecase
2herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 facenmod:poss
3facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing6 fairobl
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 faircop
5asasADV_6 fairadvmod
6fairfairADJDegree=Posrootroot
7asasADP_10 dreamcase
8aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 dreamdet
9beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos10 dreamamod
10dreamdreamNOUNNumber=Sing6 fairobl
11,,PUNCT_14 voicepunct
12AndandCCONJ_14 voicecc
13herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 voicenmod:poss
14voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing6 fairparataxis
15likelikeADP_17 songcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 songdet
17songsongNOUNNumber=Sing14 voicenmod
18ofofADP_21 streamcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 streamdet
20mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing21 streamcompound
21streamstreamNOUNNumber=Sing17 songnmod
22;;PUNCT_25 eyespunct
23AndandCCONJ_25 eyescc
24herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 eyesnmod:poss
25eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur6 fairconj
26likelikeADP_28 starscase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 starsdet
28starsstarNOUNNumber=Plur25 eyesnmod
29whenwhenSCONJ_31 glowmark
30theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs31 glownsubj
31glowglowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 fairadvcl
32andandCCONJ_33 gleamcc
33gleamgleamNOUNNumber=Sing31 glowconj
34..PUNCT_6 fairpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastfor Beloved's face; as a beautiful dream; Beloved's voice like the song of the mountain stream parataxis; Beloved's eyes like the stars conj; fair propertytree rules
2glowpresentstars = stargleam conjvn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3singthe mountain streamnom song «communication intransitive»: of=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: «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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