The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 50

'Surely the girls of her country are stronger than our girls, for none of them could cut so quickly or carry so much!'

Who acts: girls, none · What happens: be, cut, carry

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 (girls, none), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 stronger	punct
2	Surely	surely	ADV	_	4 girls	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girls	det
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stronger	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 country	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 country	nmod:poss
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 girls	nmod
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stronger	cop
9	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 girls	case
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 girls	nmod:poss
12	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stronger	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 cut	mark
15	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	19 cut	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 none	nmod
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 cut	aux
19	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stronger	parataxis
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 quickly	advmod
21	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	19 cut	advmod
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 carry	cc
23	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 cut	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADV	_	23 carry	advmod
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 stronger	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 stronger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	the girls of girl's country	than our girls; strong property	tree rules
2	cut	could	none	quickly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	carry	infinitive	none not said here		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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