The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 8

A handsome, pleasant-faced boy of twelve, and tall for his age.

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
2	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 handsome	punct
4	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 faced	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 pleasant	punct
6	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tall	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 twelve	case
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 boy	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tall	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tall	cc
12	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 age	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 age	nmod:poss
15	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tall	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tall	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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