The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 4
He had crooked legs and squinting eyes, a large mouth all on one side, and a hunchback.
Who acts: Grumpy · What happens: have, squint · To what, where: crooked legs, one side
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (Grumpy), 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 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 legs | amod |
| 4 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 eyes | cc |
| 6 | squinting | squint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 eyes | amod |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 legs | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mouth | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mouth | det |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mouth | amod |
| 11 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 legs | conj |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 side | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 side | nummod |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hunchback | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hunchback | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hunchback | det |
| 19 | hunchback | hunchback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Grumpy | crooked legs and squinting eyes and a large mouth | one side | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | |||
| 2 | squint | gerund | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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