The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 94
Never was any present in the world as useful as that little box, and many times did he bless the kind thought of the princess.
Who acts: present · What happens: not be, bless, think · To what, where: present, world, kind thought, princess
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (present), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 present | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 present | cop |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 present | det |
| 4 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 useful | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 present | nmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 useful | advmod |
| 9 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 box | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 box | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 box | amod |
| 13 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 useful | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bless | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bless | cc |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 times | amod |
| 17 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bless | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bless | aux |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bless | nsubj |
| 20 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 useful | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 thought | det |
| 22 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 thought | amod |
| 23 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bless | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 princess | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 princess | det |
| 26 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thought | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 useful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | any present | the world | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bless | past · do-support | present | the kind thought of the princess | time | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme | |||
| 3 | think | the princess | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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