The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 77
She is hideous, more hideous than anything you can imagine, with owl’s eyes, foxy face, and cat’s claws.
Who acts: Fairy, you · What happens: be, imagine
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, you), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hideous | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hideous | cop |
| 3 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hideous | punct |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 hideous | advmod |
| 6 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hideous | conj |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 anything | case |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 hideous | obl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 imagine | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 imagine | aux |
| 11 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 anything | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eyes | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 eyes | case |
| 14 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 owl | case |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 imagine | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 face | punct |
| 18 | foxy | foxy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 face | amod |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eyes | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 claws | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 claws | cc |
| 22 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 claws | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 cat | case |
| 24 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hideous | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hideous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Fairy | cat's claws obl; hideous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Fairy not said here | than anything | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | imagine | can | you | with owl's eyes and foxy face | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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