The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 89

It was a little dream-boy, so little, so little, that he was less than Lasse himself; he had blue eyes and fair hair, a red cap with a silver band, and white coat with pearls on the collar.

Who acts: lonesome, boy · What happens: be, have · To what, where: little dream boy, blue eyes

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lonesome, boy), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 boy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
5	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boy	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 dream	punct
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 little	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 little	advmod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 little	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 little	advmod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 little	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 less	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 less	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 less	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 less	cop
18	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 little	conj
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 Lasse	case
20	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 less	obl
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 Lasse	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	conj
25	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 eyes	amod
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 had	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hair	cc
28	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hair	amod
29	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eyes	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cap	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cap	det
32	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cap	amod
33	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eyes	nmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 band	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 band	det
36	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 band	compound
37	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cap	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 coat	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 coat	cc
40	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 coat	amod
41	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obl
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 pearls	case
43	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 coat	nmod
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 collar	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 collar	det
46	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 pearls	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	lonesome	a little dream boy		tree rules
2	is	past	boy		than Lasse Lasse; less property	tree rules
3	have	past	boy	blue eyes a red cap with a silver band and fair hair	white coat with pearls on the collar obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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