The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 28
Of these Maurice Connor was not one, though he had a stiff head enough of his own.
Who acts: Maurice · What happens: not be, have · To what, where: one, stiff head
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maurice), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Connor | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 Connor | det |
| 3 | Maurice | Maurice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Connor | compound |
| 4 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 one | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 one | advmod |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 head | det |
| 13 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 head | amod |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 had | advmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 own | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 own | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 enough | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | one | of this Maurice Connor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Maurice | a stiff head | enough property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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