The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 33
And she pulled out Ball-Carrier, looking so lean and small that he would hardly have made a mouthful for a sparrow.
Who acts: servant, ball · What happens: pull out, look, make · To what, where: Ball, mouthful
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, ball), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pulled | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 pulled | compound:prt |
| 5 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Carrier | punct |
| 7 | Carrier | Carrier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ball | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looking | punct |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 pulled | advcl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 lean | advmod |
| 11 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looking | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 small | cc |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lean | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 made | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux |
| 17 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 19 made | advmod |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 made | aux |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 lean | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mouthful | det |
| 21 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 sparrow | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sparrow | det |
| 24 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mouthful | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | past | servant | Ball and Carrier | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | servant not said here | lean property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | would · perfect | ball | a mouthful | for a sparrow; hardly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent mouthful=Product for sparrow=Asset |
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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