The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 158
His body was yellow and green, and his claws scarlet, and his tail was so long that it lay in a hundred coils.
Who acts: body, claws, tail · What happens: be, scarlet, lie · To what, where: hundred coils
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body, claws, tail), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 body | nmod:poss |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yellow | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 yellow | cop |
| 4 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 green | cc |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 yellow | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 scarlet | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 scarlet | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 claws | nmod:poss |
| 10 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 scarlet | nsubj |
| 11 | scarlet | scarlet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 yellow | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 long | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 long | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tail | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 long | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 long | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 long | advmod |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 yellow | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 lay | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lay | nsubj |
| 21 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 long | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 coils | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hundred | det |
| 24 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 coils | nummod |
| 25 | coils | coil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lay | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 yellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man's body | yellow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | man's body not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | scarlet | present | man's claws | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | past | man's tail | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lie | past | tail | hundred coils | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in coil=Location |
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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