Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 32

There Grace proved to be no less tender as a nurse than she had been brave as a sailor.

Who acts: Grace · What happens: prove, be · To what, where: less tender

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Grace Darling.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grace), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 proved	expl
2	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 proved	nsubj
3	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	8 tender	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 tender	cop
6	no	no	ADV	_	7 less	advmod
7	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 tender	amod
8	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proved	ccomp
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 nurse	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 nurse	det
11	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tender	nmod
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 brave	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brave	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 brave	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 brave	cop
16	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 proved	advcl
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 sailor	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sailor	det
19	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brave	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 proved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prove	past	Grace		there		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive	Grace not said here	less tender		as a nurse	tree rules
3	is	past · perfect	Grace			as a sailor; brave 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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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