The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 24

The eldest was but ten years old, and the youngest only seven.

Who acts: eldest · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 old	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 old	cop
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 old	cc
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 old	obl:unmarked
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 youngest	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 youngest	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youngest	det
11	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 old	appos
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 seven	advmod
13	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 youngest	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the eldest				year	old 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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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