Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 21
She was lovelier in shape than any other princess of the Many-Coloured Land.
Who acts: pillar · What happens: be · To what, where: shape
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pillar), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lovelier | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lovelier | cop |
| 3 | lovelier | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 shape | case |
| 5 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lovelier | obl |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 princess | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 princess | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 princess | amod |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lovelier | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Land | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Land | det |
| 12 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Coloured | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Many | punct |
| 14 | Coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Land | amod |
| 15 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 princess | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lovelier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | pillar | shape | than any other princess of the Coloured Land; lovely 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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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