The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 103
They were both alike in size and appearance.
Who acts: onions · What happens: be · To what, where: size
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (onions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:3194): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | 4 alike | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alike | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 alike | advmod |
| 4 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 size | case |
| 6 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 alike | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 appearance | cc |
| 8 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 size | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 alike | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | onions = onion | size and appearance | alike, both 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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