The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 9

‘Musha, indeed, sir, your coat looks no better than a withered dock-leaf.’

Who acts: coat · What happens: look, wither · To what, where: Musha

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coat), 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	_	2 Musha	punct
2	Musha	Musha	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Musha	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 Musha	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sir	punct
6	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Musha	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looks	punct
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 coat	nmod:poss
9	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looks	nsubj
10	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Musha	acl:relcl
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 better	advmod
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 looks	xcomp
13	than	than	ADP	_	18 leaf	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 leaf	det
15	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 leaf	amod
16	dock	dock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 leaf	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 dock	punct
18	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 better	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Musha	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Musha	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	your coat	Musha not said here				good property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme musha=Attribute
2	wither	participle							vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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