The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 54
The youngest Simon, who looked very pale and hungry, only nodded his head.
Who acts: youngest Simon · What happens: look, nod · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest Simon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Simon | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 Simon | amod |
| 3 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 pale | advmod |
| 8 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looked | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hungry | cc |
| 10 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pale | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 nodded | punct |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 nodded | advmod |
| 13 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nodded | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the youngest Simon | pale property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | nod | past | the youngest Simon not said here | Simon's head | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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: «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.
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