The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 88

He was not more than three feet high, his legs were quite crooked, and all his body was covered with prickles like a hedgehog.

Who acts: Prince, legs · What happens: not be, be, cover · To what, where: body

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, legs), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 high	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 high	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 high	advmod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	6 three	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 more	fixed
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 feet	nummod
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 high	obl:unmarked
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 crooked	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 legs	nmod:poss
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 crooked	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 crooked	cop
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 crooked	advmod
14	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 high	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 covered	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 covered	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 body	det:predet
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 body	nmod:poss
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 covered	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 covered	aux:pass
21	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 high	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 prickles	case
23	prickles	prickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 covered	obl
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 hedgehog	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hedgehog	det
26	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 prickles	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 high	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Prince		three feet obl:unmarked; high property	tree rules
2	is	past	Prince's legs		crooked property	tree rules
3	cover	past · passive		Prince's body	with prickles like a hedgehog	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with prickle=Theme

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 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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