The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 76
‘It looks like the trunk of a great thick birch tree.’
Who acts: darkness · What happens: look
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (darkness), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looks | nsubj |
| 3 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 trunk | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trunk | det |
| 6 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tree | amod |
| 10 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tree | amod |
| 11 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trunk | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | darkness | like the trunk of a great thick birch tree | 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 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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