The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 39

There were legs and shoulders like mutton but smaller than the wings of a lark.

Who acts: legs · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legs), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shoulders	cc
5	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 legs	conj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 mutton	case
7	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shoulders	nmod
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 smaller	cc
9	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 legs	conj
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 wings	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wings	det
12	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 smaller	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 lark	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lark	det
15	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wings	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	legs and shoulders like mutton			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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