The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 140

The spear must be as thick in the middle as a large tree, and both its ends must be sharp.

Who acts: spear, ends · What happens: be · To what, where: middle

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spear, ends), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spear	det
2	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thick	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 thick	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 thick	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 thick	advmod
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thick	obl
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 tree	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tree	det
12	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tree	amod
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thick	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sharp	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sharp	cc
16	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	18 ends	det
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ends	nmod:poss
18	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sharp	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sharp	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 sharp	cop
21	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thick	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	the spear			the middle		as a large tree; thick property	tree rules
2	is	must	spear's ends					sharp property	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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