Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 108

But it was the youngest daughter of all that the prince's fancy fed upon more than on any of the others.

Who acts: Vast, fancy, prince · What happens: be, feed, fancy · To what, where: youngest daughter

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vast, fancy, prince), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 daughter	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 daughter	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 daughter	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 daughter	amod
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 that	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 that	det:predet
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 fed	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fancy	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 prince	case
13	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fed	nsubj
14	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 daughter	parataxis
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 any	case
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 any	amod
17	than	than	ADP	_	19 any	case
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 any	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 fed	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 others	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 others	det
22	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 any	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 daughter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Vast	the youngest daughter		tree rules
2	feed	participle	the prince's fancy		of that; upon any	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	fancy		the prince			nom fancy «cognition 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: «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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