The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 8
He can never grow up a tall handsome cock like his brothers.
Who acts: He · What happens: not grow up · To what, where: tall handsome cock
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 | 4 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 grow | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 grow | advmod |
| 4 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 grow | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cock | det |
| 7 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cock | amod |
| 8 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cock | amod |
| 9 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grow | obj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 brothers | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cock | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow up | can | He | a tall handsome cock | like his brothers | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cock=Theme |
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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