The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 43
He was not ugly, like the dragon; his fur was quite white and soft and glossy, and he had lovely, gentle brown eyes.
Who acts: Hare, fur · What happens: not be, be, have
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, fur), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ugly | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ugly | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ugly | advmod |
| 4 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dragon | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 dragon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ugly | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 white | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fur | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 white | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 white | cop |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 white | advmod |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ugly | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 soft | cc |
| 16 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 white | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 glossy | cc |
| 18 | glossy | glossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 white | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 had | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ugly | parataxis |
| 23 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 had | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 eyes | punct |
| 25 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 eyes | amod |
| 26 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 eyes | amod |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lovely | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ugly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Hare | like the dragon; ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Hare's fur | white property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Hare's fur not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | Hare's fur not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | have | past | Hare | lovely property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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