Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 62

Exceeding fair were all the damsels they brought him, and yet he would choose none of them.

Who acts: damsels, puss · What happens: exceed, be, choose · To what, where: none

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (damsels, puss), 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	Exceeding	exceed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 brought	csubj
2	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Exceeding	xcomp
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brought	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 damsels	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 damsels	det
6	damsels	damsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 brought	nsubj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brought	nsubj
8	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brought	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 choose	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 choose	cc
12	yet	yet	ADV	_	15 choose	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 choose	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 choose	aux
15	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 brought	conj
16	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	15 choose	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 none	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	exceed	gerund				fair property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	is	past	all damsels			bring property	tree rules
3	choose	would	puss	none	yet		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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