Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 6
"Yet she is not so beautiful as our mother," said the elder boy. "
Who acts: Rome, elder boy · What happens: not be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Rome, elder 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
| 2 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 7 beautiful | cc |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 beautiful | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 beautiful | advmod |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 mother | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beautiful | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 15 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boy | amod |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | Rome | as our mother; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the elder boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/6/