The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 11

He was a great gawky fellow, dry and bronzed, with a crooked nose, a long rat-tail moustache, two great yellow piercing and mocking eyes, under a large felt hat set off by a scarlet cock’s feather.

Who acts: horde, two · What happens: be, bronze, piercing, mock, set off · To what, where: great gawky fellow, eyes, large felt hat

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horde, two), 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	6 fellow	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fellow	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fellow	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
5	gawky	gawky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
6	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dry	punct
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bronzed	cc
10	bronzed	bronze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 dry	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nose	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 nose	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 nose	det
14	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 nose	amod
15	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bronzed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 moustache	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 moustache	det
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 moustache	amod
19	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tail	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 rat	punct
21	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 moustache	compound
22	moustache	moustache	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fellow	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 piercing	punct
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 piercing	nsubj
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 piercing	amod
26	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 piercing	amod
27	piercing	piercing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 moustache	appos
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 mocking	cc
29	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 piercing	conj
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 mocking	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 hat	punct
32	under	under	ADP	_	36 hat	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 hat	det
34	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hat	amod
35	felt	felt	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hat	compound
36	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fellow	conj
37	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 hat	acl
38	off	off	ADP	_	37 set	compound:prt
39	by	by	ADP	_	44 feather	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 cock	det
41	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 cock	compound
42	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 feather	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 cock	case
44	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 set	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	horde	a great gawky fellow and a long tail moustache and a large felt hat		tree rules
2	bronze	participle	horde not said here		with a crooked nose	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with nose=Theme
3	piercing		two			tree rules
4	mock	gerund	two not said here	eyes		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
5	set off	participle		a large felt hat not said here	by a scarlet cock's feather	vn escape-51.1-1 «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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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