The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 116
Now, behold, it is not even a span high!
Who acts: rock · What happens: not be · To what, where: span
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 high | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 10 span | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 behold | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 span | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 span | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 span | advmod |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 span | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 span | det |
| 10 | span | span | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 high | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | rock | a span | 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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