The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 11
They shaped a little body and two little hands and two little feet.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: shape · To what, where: little body
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shaped | nsubj |
| 2 | shaped | shape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 body | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 body | amod |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shaped | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hands | cc |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hands | nummod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hands | amod |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 body | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feet | cc |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 feet | nummod |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feet | amod |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hands | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | past | Ivan | a little body and two little hands and two little feet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset body=Product |
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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