The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 18

At least, if the cunning hero, human or animal, is the weaker, like Odysseus, Brer Rabbit, and many others, the story-teller sees little in intellect but superior cunning, by which tiny Jack gets the better of the giants.

Who acts: cunning hero, story teller, tiny Jack · What happens: be, see, get · To what, where: many others, intellect cunning

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (cunning hero, story teller, tiny Jack), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 least	case
2	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 hero	nmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hero	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 hero	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hero	det
6	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hero	compound
7	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weaker	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 human	punct
9	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hero	amod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 animal	cc
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 human	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hero	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 weaker	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 weaker	det
15	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Odysseus	punct
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 Odysseus	case
18	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 weaker	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Rabbit	punct
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Rabbit	compound
21	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Odysseus	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sees	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sees	cc
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 others	amod
25	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sees	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 others	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 teller	det
28	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 teller	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 story	punct
30	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sees	nsubj
31	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 weaker	parataxis
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sees	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 cunning	case
34	intellect	intellect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 cunning	amod
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 superior	cc
36	superior	superior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 intellect	conj
37	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sees	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 gets	punct
39	by	by	ADP	_	40 which	case
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 gets	obl
41	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Jack	amod
42	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 gets	nsubj
43	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 sees	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 better	det
45	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 gets	xcomp
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 giants	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 giants	det
48	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 better	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 weaker	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the cunning hero at least			like Odysseus and Brer Rabbit; weak property	tree rules
2	see	present	the story teller	many others	intellect cunning		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus
3	get	present	tiny Jack			good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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