More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 25

For there wasn't a colour of the rainbow but you might find it in some corner of his dress, and he was tall and thin, and had keen piercing eyes.

Who acts: you, Honour · What happens: find, be, have · To what, where: colour, corner, keen piercing eyes

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (you, Honour), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	3 was	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 tall	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 colour	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 colour	det
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 rainbow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rainbow	det
9	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colour	nmod
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 find	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 find	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 find	aux
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 colour	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 find	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 corner	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 corner	det
17	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 dress	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 dress	nmod:poss
20	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 corner	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tall	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tall	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tall	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 tall	cop
25	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 thin	cc
27	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tall	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 tall	conj
31	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 eyes	amod
32	piercing	piercing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eyes	compound
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 had	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 tall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	might	you	colour	some corner of Honour's dress		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	is	past	Honour			tall property	tree rules
3	be		Honour not said here				tree rules
4	have	past	Honour not said here	keen piercing eyes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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