The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 100

One shall have lost a leg, another an arm, the third shall be a hunchback, another lame or club-footed or blind, and most of them shall be ugly and covered with scars.

Who acts: third, most · What happens: lose, be, cover · To what, where: One, hunchback

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third, most), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 lost	nsubj:pass
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 lost	aux
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 leg	det
6	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 arm	punct
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 arm	det
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 arm	det
10	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leg	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hunchback	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 third	det
13	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 hunchback	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hunchback	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 hunchback	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hunchback	det
17	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leg	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lame	punct
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 lame	det
20	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hunchback	appos
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 club	cc
22	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lame	conj
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 footed	punct
24	footed	footed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 club	amod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 blind	cc
26	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 footed	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ugly	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 ugly	cc
29	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 ugly	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 most	nmod
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 ugly	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 ugly	cop
34	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lost	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 covered	cc
36	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 ugly	conj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 scars	case
38	scars	scar	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 covered	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	shall · perfect · passive		One		tree rules
2	is a	shall	the third	a hunchback		tree rules
3	is	shall	most of lame		ugly property	tree rules
4	cover	participle	most of lame not said here		with scars	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with scar=Theme

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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