The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 59
“Caesar has one paw so badly swollen that it looks as if it were broken,” said one.
Who acts: Caesar · What happens: have, swell, look, break, say · To what, where: one paw, Caesar, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caesar), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 2 | Caesar | caesar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 paw | nummod |
| 5 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 swollen | advmod |
| 7 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 swollen | advmod |
| 8 | swollen | swell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 has | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 looks | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looks | nsubj |
| 11 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 swollen | advcl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 broken | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 broken | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 broken | aux:pass |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 said | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 broken | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 broken | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looks | conj |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 said | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Caesar | one paw | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Patient | ||||
| 2 | swell in a quote | participle | Caesar not said here | badly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | present | Caesar | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | break in a quote | past · passive | Caesar | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Caesar not said here | one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/36/59/