The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 6
The cable was about as thick as packthread, and the bars of the length and size of a knitting-needle.
Who acts: cable · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cable), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cable | det |
| 2 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thick | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thick | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 thick | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 thick | advmod |
| 6 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 packthread | case |
| 8 | packthread | packthread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thick | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 length | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 length | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bars | det |
| 12 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 length | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 length | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 length | det |
| 15 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thick | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 size | cc |
| 17 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 length | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 needle | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 needle | det |
| 20 | knitting | knitting | NOUN | _ | 22 needle | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 knitting | punct |
| 22 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 length | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cable | as packthread; about, thick property | tree rules |
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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