The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 66
‘An old horse’s hoof shall be our wineglass.’
Who acts: hoof · What happens: be · To what, where: wineglass
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hoof), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 wineglass | punct |
| 2 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horse | amod |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hoof | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 horse | case |
| 6 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wineglass | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 wineglass | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wineglass | cop |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wineglass | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wineglass | wineglass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wineglass | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 wineglass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | shall | a old horse's hoof | our wineglass | 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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