The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 126

His upper lip, arched like an eyebrow, curved upwards to his nostrils and his lower hung down like a camel’s.

What happens: arch, curve, hang down · To what, where: upper lip

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	3 lip	nmod:poss
2	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lip	amod
3	lip	lip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arched	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 arched	punct
5	arched	arch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 eyebrow	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 eyebrow	det
8	eyebrow	eyebrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arched	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 curved	punct
10	curved	curve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 arched	conj
11	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	10 curved	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 nostrils	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 nostrils	nmod:poss
14	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 upwards	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hung	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hung	nmod:poss
17	lower	low	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 hung	advmod
18	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arched	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 hung	compound:prt
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 camel	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 camel	det
22	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hung	obl
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 camel	case
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 arched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	arch	participle · passive	tee's upper lip	like a eyebrow	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	curve	participle		upwards property	vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
3	hang down	past		like a camel; low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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