English Fairy Tales, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, sentence 8

Of course a Brownie is a funny little thing, half man, half goblin, with pointed ears and hairy hide.

Who acts: hairy · What happens: be, hide · To what, where: funny little thing, pointed ears

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hairy), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 Brownie	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Brownie	det
4	Brownie	Brownie	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 thing	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thing	det
7	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
11	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 goblin	punct
14	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	15 goblin	amod
15	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ears	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 ears	case
18	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ears	amod
19	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thing	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hide	cc
21	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hide	nsubj
22	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 ears	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a funny little thing and pointed ears				of a Brownie	tree rules
2	hide	present	hairy	pointed ears not said here					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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