The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 117
‘A covered head is among men a sign of honour.
Who acts: covered head · What happens: cover, be, sign · To what, where: honour
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (covered head), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 men | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 head | det |
| 3 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 head | amod |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 men | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 men | cop |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sign | det |
| 9 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 men | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 honour | case |
| 11 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sign | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | a covered head | among men | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sign | honour | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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