The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 49

He was stronger than any man and very tall and handsome, so that the people shouted with gladness when they saw him.

Who acts: boy, people · What happens: be, shout, see · To what, where: boy

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 (boy, people), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stronger	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stronger	cop
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 man	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stronger	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tall	cc
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 tall	advmod
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stronger	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 handsome	cc
11	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tall	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shouted	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 shouted	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 shouted	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shouted	nsubj
17	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stronger	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 gladness	case
19	gladness	gladness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shouted	obl
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 saw	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 shouted	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stronger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	boy		than any man; strong property	tree rules
2	be		boy not said here			tree rules
3	shout speech: express	past	the people		with gladness	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	past	people	boy		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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