The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 38

He was not like other children, for he was very tall and strong; over his shoulder he carried a big sack, and in his hand an iron hammer.

Who acts: Senna, other children · What happens: not be, be, carry · To what, where: big sack, shoulder

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (Senna, other children), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 children	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 children	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 children	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 children	case
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 children	amod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 carried	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tall	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 tall	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tall	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tall	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 tall	advmod
12	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 children	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 strong	cc
14	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tall	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 carried	punct
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 shoulder	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shoulder	nmod:poss
18	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carried	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 carried	nsubj
20	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sack	det
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sack	amod
23	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carried	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hammer	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hammer	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 hand	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hand	nmod:poss
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hammer	obl
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hammer	det
30	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hammer	compound
31	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carried	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Senna			like other children	tree rules
2	is	past	Senna			tall property	tree rules
3	be		Senna not said here				tree rules
4	carry	past	other children	a big sack	Senna's shoulder	a iron hammer obl	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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