Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 64
His couch is as downy as a couch can be, For he sleeps on the feathers of the green fir-tree.
Who acts: couch, Merry · What happens: be, sleep · To what, where: feathers
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couch, Merry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 couch | nmod:poss |
| 2 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 downy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 downy | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 downy | advmod |
| 5 | downy | downy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 be | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 couch | det |
| 8 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 be | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 be | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 downy | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sleeps | punct |
| 12 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 sleeps | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sleeps | nsubj |
| 14 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 downy | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 feathers | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 feathers | det |
| 17 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sleeps | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tree | amod |
| 21 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tree | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 fir | punct |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feathers | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 downy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Merry's couch | downy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sleep | present | Merry | the feathers of the green fir tree | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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