The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 5
“Your skin is so thick and warm, and winter is not far off now.
Who acts: skin · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skin), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 thick | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 skin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thick | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thick | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 thick | advmod |
| 6 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 warm | cc |
| 8 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thick | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 off | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 off | cc |
| 11 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 off | compound |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 off | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 far | advmod |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 off | advmod |
| 15 | off | off | ADV | _ | 6 thick | conj |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 off | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Your skin | thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | Your skin not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Your skin not said here | now | far, off property | 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: «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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