The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 262
A horned maiden is by no means lovely to look at.’
Who acts: horned maiden · What happens: be, look
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horned maiden), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 2 | horned | horned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maiden | amod |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | cop |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 no | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 means | obl |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lovely | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 look | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a horned maiden | by no; lovely, mean property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | a horned maiden not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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