The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 2

They were all fine, plump little birds, except the youngest, who was quite unlike his brothers and sisters.

Who acts: chickens, plump little birds · What happens: be

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 (chickens, plump little birds), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fine	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 fine	advmod
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 birds	punct
6	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 birds	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 birds	amod
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fine	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 youngest	punct
10	except	except	ADP	_	12 youngest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 youngest	det
12	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 birds	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 brothers	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 brothers	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 brothers	cop
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 brothers	advmod
17	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	19 brothers	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 brothers	nmod:poss
19	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 birds	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sisters	cc
21	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 birds	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	chickens = chicken					all, fine property	tree rules
2	is	past	plump little birds and his brothers and sisters					unlike his brothers	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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