The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 24

On the top of the mound stands a black man, larger than any two white men; his eye is in the centre of his forehead and he has only one foot.

Who acts: black man, eye, hunger · What happens: stand, be, have · To what, where: top, centre, one foot

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black man, eye, hunger), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 top	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 top	det
3	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stands	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 mound	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mound	det
6	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 top	nmod
7	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stands	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 larger	punct
12	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 man	amod
13	than	than	ADP	_	17 men	case
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 men	det
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 men	nummod
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 men	amod
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 larger	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 centre	punct
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eye	nmod:poss
20	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 centre	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 centre	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 centre	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 centre	det
24	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stands	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 forehead	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 forehead	nmod:poss
27	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 centre	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 has	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 has	nsubj
30	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stands	conj
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 one	advmod
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 foot	nummod
33	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 has	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	present	a black man		the top of the mound		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location
2	is	present	hunger's eye		the centre	of hunger's forehead	tree rules
3	have	present	hunger	one foot			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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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