The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 125
And the lord of it all is an exceeding great and wonderful snake.’
Who acts: lord · What happens: exceed, be · To what, where: exceeding great snake
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 snake | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 snake | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 it | det |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 snake | cop |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 snake | det |
| 9 | exceeding | exceed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 snake | amod |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 snake | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wonderful | cc |
| 12 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 great | conj |
| 13 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 snake | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 snake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exceed | gerund | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the lord of house | a exceeding great snake | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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