The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 93
He had a lion’s head, a bull’s horns, a wolf’s feet, and a snake’s body.
Who acts: word · What happens: have · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lion | det |
| 4 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 lion | case |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 horns | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bull | det |
| 9 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 horns | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 bull | case |
| 11 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feet | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wolf | det |
| 14 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 wolf | case |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 horns | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 body | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 body | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 snake | det |
| 20 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 body | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 snake | case |
| 22 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | word | a lion's head | a bull's horns and a wolf's feet obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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 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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