The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 26
But the dog that guards the chest there has eyes as large as the Round Tower at Copenhagen!
Who acts: dog · What happens: guard, have · To what, where: chest, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 has | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 guards | nsubj |
| 5 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dog | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chest | det |
| 7 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guards | obj |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 guards | advmod |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 has | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 large | advmod |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 has | xcomp |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Tower | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Tower | det |
| 15 | Round | Round | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Tower | compound |
| 16 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 large | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 Copenhagen | case |
| 18 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Tower | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | present | the dog | the chest | there | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | have | present | the dog | eyes | large property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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 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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