Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 10

There is no woman in Rome so much like a queen as our own dear mother."

Who acts: woman · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Cornelia's Jewels.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Rome	case
6	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 woman	nmod
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	2 is	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 queen	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 queen	det
11	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	obl
12	as	as	ADP	_	16 mother	case
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mother	amod
15	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mother	amod
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 queen	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no woman in Rome			there		like a queen as our own dear mother	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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