The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 45

Oh, how much better a servant he was than any of the little girls the bride had refused to bring with her!

Who acts: little girls · What happens: refuse, not bring · To what, where: bride

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little girls), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 better	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 servant	det
7	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 better	nsubj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 any	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 any	cop
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 any	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 servant	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 girls	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 girls	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 girls	amod
15	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 any	nmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bride	det
17	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 refused	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 refused	aux
19	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 girls	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 bring	mark
21	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 refused	xcomp
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bring	obl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past · perfect · passive	the little girls not said here	the bride					tree rules
2	not bring	to-infinitive	the little girls not said here					with girl	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=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: «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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