The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 12
Indeed, in character he was as unlike his brothers and sisters as he was in appearance.
Who acts: Medio · What happens: be · To what, where: character
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Medio), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 17 appearance | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 character | case |
| 4 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Indeed | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brothers | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brothers | cop |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 brothers | advmod |
| 8 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 10 brothers | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 character | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sisters | cc |
| 12 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 brothers | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 appearance | case |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 appearance | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 appearance | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 appearance | case |
| 17 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 appearance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Medio | character not said here | unlike Medio's brothers and sisters | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | Medio | as appearance; indeed property | 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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