The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 77
‘And one was less nimble than the rest, and is now in my glove.
Who acts: ‘ · What happens: be · To what, where: glove
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: who acts (‘), 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 | ‘ | ‘ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 nimble | nsubj |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 one | cc |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 ‘ | conj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 nimble | cop |
| 5 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 nimble | advmod |
| 6 | nimble | nimble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 rest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rest | det |
| 9 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nimble | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glove | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 glove | cc |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 glove | cop |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 glove | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 glove | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 glove | nmod:poss |
| 16 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nimble | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 nimble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ‘ | than the rest; less, nimble property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | ‘ not said here | my glove | now | tree rules |
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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