The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 5
She was very ugly to look at: her under-lip hung down to her breast.
Who acts: Witch, lip · What happens: be, look, hang down
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 (Witch, lip), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ugly | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ugly | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 ugly | advmod |
| 4 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ugly | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 look | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 hung | punct |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lip | nmod:poss |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 lip | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 under | punct |
| 12 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hung | nsubj |
| 13 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ugly | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 hung | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 breast | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 breast | nmod:poss |
| 17 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hung | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ugly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Witch | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | Witch not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hang down | past | Witch's lip | to Witch's breast; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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