The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 58

His legs were small and spindly, but his arms were as large as those of a well-grown man, with large brown hands, and long skinny fingers.

Who acts: legs, arms · What happens: be, grow

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legs, arms), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 legs	nmod:poss
2	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 small	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spindly	cc
6	spindly	spindly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 small	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 large	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 large	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 arms	nmod:poss
10	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 large	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 large	cop
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 large	advmod
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 small	conj
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 those	case
15	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 large	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	21 man	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 grown	advmod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 well	punct
20	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 those	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hands	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 hands	case
24	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hands	amod
25	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hands	amod
26	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 large	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fingers	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fingers	cc
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fingers	amod
30	skinny	skinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fingers	compound
31	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 small	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 small	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	head's legs	long skinny fingers obl; small property	tree rules
2	be		head's legs not said here		tree rules
3	is	past	head's arms	as those; with large brown hands; large property	tree rules
4	grow	participle		well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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