The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 4
This one looked just as if he had been cut in two.
Who acts: one · What happens: look, cut · To what, where: he, two
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 (one), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 cut | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 cut | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 cut | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cut | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 cut | aux:pass |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 two | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 cut | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | this one | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | cut a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | he | two | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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