The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 22

'He may not be quite as handsome as the others, but he swims better, and is very strong; I am sure he will make his way in the world as well as anybody.'

Who acts: rest, I · What happens: not be, swim, be, make · To what, where: way, world

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 handsome	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 handsome	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 handsome	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 handsome	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 handsome	cop
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 as	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 handsome	advmod
8	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 others	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 others	det
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 handsome	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 swims	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 swims	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 swims	nsubj
15	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 handsome	parataxis
16	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 swims	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 strong	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 strong	cc
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 strong	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 strong	advmod
21	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 swims	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 sure	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 sure	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sure	cop
25	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 handsome	conj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 make	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 make	aux
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sure	ccomp
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 way	nmod:poss
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	obl
34	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	37 anybody	cc
35	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 as	fixed
36	as	as	ADP	_	34 as	fixed
37	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 make	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 handsome	punct
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 handsome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	may	rest			as the others; handsome property	tree rules
2	swim	present	rest			good property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	rest not said here			strong property	tree rules
4	is	present	I			sure property	tree rules
5	make	future	rest	rest's way	the world		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product

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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