The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 7

‘My youngest born is only a half-chick.

What happens: bear, be · To what, where: youngest half chick

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: 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 youngest	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 youngest	nmod:poss
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 chick	amod
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 youngest	xcomp
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 chick	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	10 chick	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 chick	det
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	10 chick	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 half	punct
10	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 chick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	participle							vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present		a youngest half chick					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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