The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 59
His long white beard and locks were unkempt, and straggled all over his chest and shoulders.
Who acts: long white beard · What happens: be, straggle · To what, where: chest
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long white beard), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 beard | nmod:poss |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beard | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beard | amod |
| 4 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 unkempt | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 locks | cc |
| 6 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 beard | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 unkempt | cop |
| 8 | unkempt | unkempt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 straggled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 straggled | cc |
| 11 | straggled | straggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 unkempt | conj |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 chest | advmod |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 chest | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 chest | nmod:poss |
| 15 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 straggled | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shoulders | cc |
| 17 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 chest | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 unkempt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | King's long white beard and locks | unkempt property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | straggle | participle | King's long white beard and locks not said here | King's chest and shoulders | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over chest=Location |
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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