The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 162
His face is wrinkled, his hair and beard are snow white, and his eyes are dim; but still he rows on.
Who acts: hair, eyes, Mark · What happens: wrinkle, be, row on · To what, where: face
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, eyes, Mark), 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 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrinkled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrinkled | aux:pass |
| 4 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrinkled | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 white | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 beard | cc |
| 9 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hair | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 white | cop |
| 11 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 white | obl |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wrinkled | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dim | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dim | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dim | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 dim | cop |
| 18 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 white | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 rows | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 rows | cc |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 rows | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 rows | nsubj |
| 23 | rows | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrinkled | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 rows | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrinkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrinkle | present · passive | Mark's face | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Mark's hair and beard | snow obl; white property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Mark's eyes | dim property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | row on | present | Mark | still | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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