The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 141
It is coal-black, and has a long neck with a brass pipe.
Who acts: food · What happens: be, have · To what, where: long neck
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 black | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 black | cop |
| 3 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 black | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 coal | punct |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 has | cc |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 black | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 neck | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 neck | amod |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 pipe | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pipe | det |
| 14 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pipe | compound |
| 15 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 neck | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 black | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | food | black property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a long neck | with a brass pipe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=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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