Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 3
Its short, strong beak was open, ready to bite, and on its red throat were short feathers, like stubble.
Who acts: short strong beak, red throat · What happens: be, bite · To what, where: short feathers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (short strong beak, red throat), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 beak | nmod:poss |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beak | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 short | punct |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beak | amod |
| 5 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 open | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 open | cop |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ready | punct |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 open | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bite | mark |
| 11 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ready | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 feathers | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 feathers | cc |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 feathers | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 throat | nmod:poss |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 throat | amod |
| 17 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feathers | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 feathers | cop |
| 19 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 feathers | amod |
| 20 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 open | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stubble | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 stubble | case |
| 23 | stubble | stubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feathers | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | pair's short strong beak | open property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | pair's short strong beak not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | bite | to-infinitive | pair's short strong beak not said here | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | pair's red throat | short feathers and stubble | 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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