The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 35
They were all pretty, but Maria, the youngest, was the prettiest of the three.
Who acts: people · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 prettiest | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 prettiest | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 pretty | advmod |
| 4 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 14 prettiest | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prettiest | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 prettiest | cc |
| 7 | Maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 prettiest | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 youngest | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youngest | det |
| 10 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 Maria | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Maria | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 prettiest | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prettiest | det |
| 14 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 three | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 three | det |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 prettiest | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 prettiest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | people | of the three; pretty property | 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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