The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 30

He was a strange enough boy to be six years old, for he looked as if he were eighteen, and was even bigger and stronger than lads commonly are at that age.

Who acts: smith · What happens: be, look · To what, where: strange enough boy, age

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith), 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 boy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
5	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	11 old	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 old	cop
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 old	obl:unmarked
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 looked	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 looked	nsubj
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 old	conj
16	as	as	ADP	_	20 eighteen	case
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 eighteen	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 eighteen	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 eighteen	cop
20	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 looked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bigger	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bigger	cc
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bigger	cop
24	even	even	ADV	_	25 bigger	advmod
25	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 boy	amod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stronger	cc
27	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 bigger	conj
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 lads	case
29	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bigger	obl
30	commonly	commonly	ADV	_	34 age	advmod
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 age	cop
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 age	case
33	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 age	det
34	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lads	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	smith	a strange enough boy			tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive			year	old property	tree rules
3	look	past	smith				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	smith			as eighteen	tree rules
5	is	past				than lads; big property	tree rules
6	be						tree rules
7	is	present			at that age	commonly property	tree rules

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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