The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 5
Not long after this his wife gave birth to a child, but though the lower half of the little creature was a fine boy, from the waist upwards it was a hedgehog, so that when his mother first saw him she was quite frightened, and said to her husband, ‘There now, you have cursed the child yourself.’
Who acts: wife, lower half, half, mother, you · What happens: give, be, see, frighten, say, curse · To what, where: birth, child, fine boy, waist, hedgehog, farmer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, lower half, half, mother), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 gave | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 long | obl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 child | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 boy | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 boy | cc |
| 14 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 25 boy | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 half | det |
| 16 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 half | amod |
| 17 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 25 boy | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 creature | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 creature | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 creature | amod |
| 21 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 half | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 boy | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 boy | det |
| 24 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 boy | amod |
| 25 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 waist | punct |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 waist | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 waist | det |
| 29 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 boy | nmod |
| 30 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 34 hedgehog | advmod |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 hedgehog | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 hedgehog | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 hedgehog | det |
| 34 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 waist | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 saw | punct |
| 36 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 42 saw | mark |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 so | fixed |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 saw | advmod |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 mother | nmod:poss |
| 40 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 saw | nsubj |
| 41 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 42 saw | advmod |
| 42 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | conj |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 saw | obj |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 frightened | aux:pass |
| 46 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 47 frightened | advmod |
| 47 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 saw | parataxis |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 said | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 said | cc |
| 50 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | parataxis |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 husband | case |
| 52 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 husband | nmod:poss |
| 53 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 said | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 cursed | punct |
| 55 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 61 cursed | punct |
| 56 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 61 cursed | expl |
| 57 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 61 cursed | advmod |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 cursed | punct |
| 59 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 61 cursed | nsubj |
| 60 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 61 cursed | aux |
| 61 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 50 said | conj |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 child | det |
| 63 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 cursed | obj |
| 64 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 61 cursed | obl |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| 66 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | farmer's wife | birth | a child | long property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to child=Recipient | ||
| 2 | is a | past | the lower half of the little creature | a fine boy | the waist | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | past | half | a hedgehog | upwards property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | see | past | farmer's mother | farmer | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | frighten | past · passive | mother | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | hedgehog's husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | curse | present · perfect | you | the child | there | now | yourself obl | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
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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