English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 18
Its little brothers and sisters around the bed were flat-nosed imps with pointed ears, who made faces at one another, and scratched their polls.
Who acts: little brothers, nosed imps, brothers · What happens: nose, be, make, scratch, poll · To what, where: nosed imps, faces, polls
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little brothers, nosed imps, brothers), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brothers | amod |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 imps | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sisters | cc |
| 5 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brothers | conj |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bed | det |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brothers | nmod |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 imps | cop |
| 10 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nosed | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 flat | punct |
| 12 | nosed | nose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 imps | amod |
| 13 | imps | imp | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 ears | case |
| 15 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ears | amod |
| 16 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 imps | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 imps | parataxis |
| 20 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 made | obl |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 one | fixed |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 scratched | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 scratched | cc |
| 26 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | conj |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 polls | nmod:poss |
| 28 | polls | poll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 scratched | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 imps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nose | participle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | silk's little brothers around the bed and sisters | nosed imps | with pointed ears | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | past | nosed imps | faces | at one | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Product | |||
| 4 | scratch | past | nosed imps not said here | brothers's polls | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poll=Theme | ||||
| 5 | poll | brothers = brother | nom poll «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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