The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 5

He had only one leg, and one wing, and one eye, and he had half a head and half a beak.

Who acts: He · What happens: have · To what, where: one leg, head

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 (He), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 leg	nummod
5	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wing	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wing	cc
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 wing	nummod
9	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eye	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 eye	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 eye	nummod
13	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
18	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	20 head	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 head	det
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 beak	cc
22	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	24 beak	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 beak	det
24	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 head	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	one leg				one wing obl; one eye obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	have	past	he	half head and half beak					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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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