The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 40
“With her beauty and talents she had a right to look for someone a little better than THAT.”
Who acts: mother · What happens: have, look · To what, where: right
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 (mother), 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 had | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 beauty | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 4 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 talents | cc |
| 6 | talents | talent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 beauty | conj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 right | det |
| 10 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 look | mark |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 right | acl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 someone | case |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 look | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 little | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 better | advmod |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 someone | acl:relcl |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 THAT | case |
| 19 | THAT | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 better | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | mother | a right | with mother's beauty and talents | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | |||
| 2 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | mother not said here | a right not said here | for someone | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for someone=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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