The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 31

There is no man so great as I, therefore I am all alone.

Who acts: man, I · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 great	advmod
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 I	case
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 great	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 alone	punct
10	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	14 alone	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 alone	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 alone	cop
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 alone	advmod
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 is	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no man			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	I					all, alone, therefore 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 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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