More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 35
The one a fine and pretty boy Not passing three years old, The other a girl more young than he, And framed in beauty's mould.
Who acts: fine boy · What happens: not pass, frame · To what, where: fine boy
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boy | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boy | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pretty | cc |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fine | conj |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 passing | advmod |
| 9 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 boy | acl |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 old | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 passing | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 girl | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 other | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boy | parataxis |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 young | advmod |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 he | case |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 young | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 framed | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 framed | cc |
| 24 | framed | frame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 boy | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 mould | case |
| 26 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mould | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 beauty | case |
| 28 | mould | mould | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 framed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pass | gerund | a fine boy not said here | old property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | frame | participle | a fine boy not said here | in beauty's mould | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mould=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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