The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 29
The face had the beauty of an angel, though the body was only that of a serpent.
Who acts: face, body · What happens: have, be · To what, where: beauty, that
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 (face, body), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 face | det |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beauty | det |
| 5 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 angel | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 angel | det |
| 8 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beauty | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 that | punct |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 that | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 body | det |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 that | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 that | cop |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 that | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 had | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 serpent | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 serpent | det |
| 18 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 that | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the face | the beauty of a angel | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the body | that | of a serpent | 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 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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