The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 84

And in one corner is a thin, wretched-looking animal whom no one would glance at a second time, but he is in reality the best of the lot.

Who acts: one, animal · What happens: look, be, glance · To what, where: thin looking animal, one corner, reality

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, animal), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 animal	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 corner	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 corner	nummod
4	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 animal	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 animal	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 animal	det
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 animal	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thin	punct
9	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 looking	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 wretched	punct
11	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 animal	amod
12	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 glance	obj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 glance	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 glance	aux
17	glance	glance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 animal	acl:relcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 time	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 time	det
20	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 time	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 glance	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reality	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 reality	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 reality	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 reality	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 reality	case
27	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 glance	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 best	det
29	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 reality	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 lot	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lot	det
32	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 best	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 animal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present		a thin looking animal	one corner		tree rules
3	glance	would	no one	a thin looking animal		time	tree rules
4	is	present	animal		reality		tree rules

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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