The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 20
What sort of thing is the sea? what does it look like?’
Who acts: sort · What happens: be, look, sort · To what, where: sea, thing
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sort), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 sort | det |
| 2 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sea | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 thing | case |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sort | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sea | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 look | obl |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | aux |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 look | nsubj |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sea | acl:relcl |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 look | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 sea | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 sea | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | what sort of thing | the sea | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | present · do-support | sort | the sea | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sort | thing | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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