The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 56

He wore wooden shoes and a little yellow coat, and as he had no hair and very long ears he looked altogether a shocking little object.

Who acts: Dwarf, long ears · What happens: wear, have, look · To what, where: wooden shoes, hair, shocking little object

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dwarf, long ears), 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 wore	nsubj
2	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shoes	amod
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wore	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 coat	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 coat	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 coat	amod
8	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 coat	amod
9	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shoes	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 had	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wore	parataxis
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 hair	det
16	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looked	cc
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 long	advmod
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ears	amod
20	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 looked	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 looked	nsubj
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	conj
23	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	22 looked	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 object	det
25	shocking	shocking	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 object	amod
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 object	amod
27	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	obl:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wear	past	Dwarf	wooden shoes and a little yellow coat		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
2	have	past	Dwarf	no hair		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	look	past	long ears	a shocking little object	altogether property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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