The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 143
It was only his neck that was like Kay’s, but he was young and handsome.
Who acts: head, that, Kay · What happens: be · To what, where: neck
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, that, Kay), 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 neck | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 neck | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 neck | advmod |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 neck | nmod:poss |
| 5 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 Kay | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Kay | cop |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 Kay | case |
| 9 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 neck | nmod |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Kay | case |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 young | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 young | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 young | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 young | cop |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 neck | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 handsome | cc |
| 17 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 young | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 neck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | head | Kay's neck | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that | like Kay | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Kay | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Kay not said here | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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