More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 18
An ugly company they were, with lips more or less disfigured, like old Habetrot's.
Who acts: spinsters · What happens: be, disfigure · To what, where: lips
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spinsters), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 company | det |
| 2 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 company | amod |
| 3 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lips | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lips | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lips | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 lips | case |
| 8 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 company | nmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 disfigured | advmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 disfigured | cc |
| 11 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 disfigured | advmod |
| 12 | disfigured | disfigure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lips | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Habetrot | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 Habetrot | case |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Habetrot | amod |
| 16 | Habetrot | Habetrot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 disfigured | obl:agent |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Habetrot | case |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 company | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | spinsters = spinster | with lips | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | disfigure | participle | lips not said here | less property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «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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