The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 244

Yes! he was a different kind of husband to the son of the toad and the mole with the black-velvet coat.

Who acts: man · What happens: be · To what, where: different kind

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 kind	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kind	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kind	det
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kind	amod
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 husband	case
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kind	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 son	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 son	det
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kind	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 toad	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 toad	det
15	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mole	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mole	det
18	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 toad	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	24 coat	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 coat	det
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 velvet	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 black	punct
23	velvet	velvet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 coat	amod
24	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mole	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	man	a different kind				of husband; to the son of the toad and the mole with the velvet coat	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 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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