The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 21
‘Little Sioux and little Crow, Little frosty Eskimo.’
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sioux | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Sioux | amod |
| 3 | Sioux | Sioux | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Crow | cc |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Crow | amod |
| 6 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Sioux | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Eskimo | punct |
| 8 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Eskimo | amod |
| 9 | frosty | frosty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Eskimo | amod |
| 10 | Eskimo | Eskimo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sioux | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sioux | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sioux | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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