The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 31

There was not another young lady in the whole town who was as clever as she was in gnawing through the hardest wood, or who could drop from such a height on to a bed, or run away so fast if anyone was heard coming.

Who acts: young lady, whole town, lady, anyone · What happens: not be, be, gnaw, drop, run away, hear · To what, where: hardest wood, height, anyone

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young lady, whole town, lady, anyone), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 was	advmod
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 lady	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 town	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 town	amod
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lady	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 clever	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 clever	cop
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 clever	advmod
14	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 town	nmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 gnawing	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gnawing	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gnawing	aux
18	in	in	SCONJ	_	19 gnawing	mark
19	gnawing	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 clever	advcl
20	through	through	ADP	_	23 wood	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wood	det
22	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 wood	amod
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gnawing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 drop	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 drop	cc
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 drop	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 drop	aux
28	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 gnawing	conj
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 height	case
30	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	32 height	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 height	det
32	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drop	obl
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 bed	case
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 bed	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bed	det
36	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drop	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 run	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 run	cc
39	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 clever	parataxis
40	away	away	ADV	_	39 run	advmod
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 fast	advmod
42	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 run	advmod
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 heard	mark
44	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	46 heard	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 heard	aux:pass
46	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 run	advcl
47	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 heard	xcomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not be	past	another young lady in the whole town		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the whole town			clever property	tree rules
3	gnaw	past · progressive	lady		the hardest wood		vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drop	could			such height	on a bed	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from height=Destination on bed=Initial_Location
5	run away	present				away, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hear a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		anyone			tree rules
7	come	gerund	anyone not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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