Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 10

Fair is her form--as the red fawn's fair, And long is the flow of her raven hair; It falls to her knees, and it streams on the breeze Like the path of a storm on the swelling seas.

Who acts: Fair · What happens: be, fall, stream · To what, where: form, long flow, breeze

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., 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 (Fair), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 form	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 form	cop
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 form	nmod:poss
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 fair	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 fair	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fawn	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fawn	amod
9	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fair	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 fawn	case
11	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 form	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flow	punct
13	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 flow	cc
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 flow	amod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 flow	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 flow	det
17	flow	flow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fair	parataxis
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 hair	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hair	nmod:poss
20	raven	raven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hair	amod
21	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flow	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 falls	punct
23	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 falls	nsubj
24	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 form	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 knees	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 knees	nmod:poss
27	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 falls	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 streams	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 streams	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 streams	nsubj
31	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 falls	obl
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 breeze	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 breeze	det
34	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 streams	nmod
35	Like	like	ADP	_	37 path	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 path	det
37	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 breeze	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 storm	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 storm	det
40	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 path	nmod
41	on	on	ADP	_	44 seas	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 seas	det
43	swelling	swelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 seas	compound
44	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 storm	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 form	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fair	rose's form		rose nmod:poss	tree rules
2	be		Fair not said here			the red fawn nmod:poss	tree rules
3	is a	present		the long flow		of rose's raven hair	tree rules
4	fall	present	Fair			to rose's knees	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to knee=Theme
5	stream		Fair		the breeze like the path of a storm on the swelling seas		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: «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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 1, sentence 10