Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 69
Your body, my little friend, is about the size of an ordinary man's finger.
Who acts: body · What happens: be · To what, where: size
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 body | nmod:poss |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 size | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 friend | amod |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 body | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 body | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 size | cop |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 size | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 size | det |
| 11 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 finger | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 finger | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 man | case |
| 17 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 size | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 size | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Your body and my little friend | the size | of a ordinary man's finger; about property | 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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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