The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 92

And indeed he did not, though he was not half so pretty to look at as the little yellow balls that followed her.

Who acts: husband, little yellow balls · What happens: not do, not be, look, follow · To what, where: half, duck

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, little yellow balls), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 did	cc
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 half	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 half	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 half	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 half	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 half	advmod
11	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 did	conj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 pretty	advmod
13	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	11 half	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 look	mark
15	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 half	acl
16	at	at	ADP	_	21 balls	case
17	as	as	ADP	_	21 balls	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 balls	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 balls	amod
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 balls	amod
21	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 look	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 followed	nsubj
23	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 balls	acl:relcl
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 followed	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not do	past	husband		indeed property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	past	husband	half	pretty property	tree rules
3	look	to-infinitive	husband not said here		at the little yellow balls	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ball=Theme
4	follow	past	the little yellow balls	duck		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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