The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 10
Small of stature, and slightly built, he had a strong arm and stronger wrist.
Who acts: Costan · What happens: build, have · To what, where: strong arm
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Costan), 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 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 stature | case |
| 3 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Small | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 built | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 built | cc |
| 6 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 7 built | advmod |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Small | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 built | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 arm | det |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 arm | amod |
| 13 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wrist | cc |
| 15 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 wrist | amod |
| 16 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arm | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | participle | slightly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Costan | a strong arm and stronger wrist | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
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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