The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 70

Instead of eyes he had two large three-cornered pieces of slate in his head; his mouth consisted of an old rake, so that he had teeth as well.

Who acts: wind · What happens: have, corner, consist · To what, where: two large cornered pieces, mouth, teeth

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 (wind), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	3 eyes	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 pieces	nummod
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pieces	amod
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 cornered	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 three	punct
10	cornered	corner	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 pieces	amod
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 slate	case
13	slate	slate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pieces	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 head	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slate	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 mouth	punct
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mouth	nmod:poss
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
20	consisted	consist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 mouth	acl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 rake	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rake	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rake	amod
24	rake	rake	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 consisted	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
26	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 had	mark
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 so	fixed
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
30	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 had	obj
31	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	29 had	advmod
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 as	fixed
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	wind	two large cornered pieces of slate in wind's head	instead eyes; wind's mouth obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
2	corner	participle				tree rules
3	consist	participle		wind's mouth not said here	of a old rake	tree rules
4	have	past	wind	teeth		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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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