The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 61
This is nothing but skin and bone; he must be fattened much longer yet.’
Who acts: This · What happens: be, fatten · To what, where: nothing, property
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 nothing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 nothing | cop |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 skin | cc |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nothing | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bone | cc |
| 7 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nothing | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 fattened | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fattened | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fattened | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fattened | aux:pass |
| 12 | fattened | fatten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 nothing | conj |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 longer | advmod |
| 14 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 fattened | advmod |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 longer | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fattened | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 fattened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fatten | must · passive | property | long property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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