The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 117
Why, the jewels in the scabbard are more splendid than the big ruby in his crown!
Who acts: jewels, father · What happens: be, crown
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jewels, father), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 splendid | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 jewels | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 jewels | det |
| 4 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 splendid | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 scabbard | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 scabbard | det |
| 7 | scabbard | scabbard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jewels | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 splendid | cop |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 splendid | advmod |
| 10 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 ruby | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ruby | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ruby | amod |
| 14 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 splendid | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 crown | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 crown | nmod:poss |
| 17 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ruby | nmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 splendid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the jewels in the scabbard | than the big ruby in father's crown; splendid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crown | father | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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: «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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