The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 86

Ugh! how ugly and clammy he was, just like his mother!

Who acts: son · What happens: be

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 (son), 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	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	4 ugly	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 ugly	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ugly	advmod
4	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 clammy	cc
6	clammy	clammy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ugly	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mother	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mother	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mother	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 mother	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 mother	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ugly	parataxis
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 ugly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	son					like son's mother	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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