The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 85

It was not long before they found it, and within the walls was the third sister, who was younger and prettier than either of the other two.

Who acts: castle, heads, third sister · What happens: not be, find, be · To what, where: castle, third sister

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle, heads, third sister), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 found	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sister	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sister	cc
11	within	within	ADP	_	13 walls	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 walls	det
13	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sister	obl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sister	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sister	det
16	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 sister	amod
17	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 younger	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 younger	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 younger	cop
21	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 sister	amod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 prettier	cc
23	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 younger	conj
24	than	than	ADP	_	25 either	case
25	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	21 younger	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 two	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 two	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 two	amod
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 either	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	castle		long property	tree rules
2	find	past	heads = head	castle		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	is a	past		the third sister	within the walls	tree rules
4	is	past	the third sister		than either; young property	tree rules
5	be		the third sister not said here			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: «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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