The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 107
‘A creature in the form of a mouse.
What happens: form · To what, where: mouse
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 3 creature | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 creature | det |
| 3 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 form | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 form | det |
| 6 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 creature | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mouse | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mouse | det |
| 9 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 form | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 creature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | a mouse | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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