The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 42

Better than all, he had two lovely gauze wings which carried him the whole day without getting tired.

Who acts: bee, two lovely gauze wings · What happens: have, carry, get · To what, where: two lovely gauze wings, bee

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bee, two lovely gauze wings), 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	Better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Better	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Better	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Better	ccomp
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 wings	nummod
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wings	amod
9	gauze	gauze	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wings	compound
10	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 carried	nsubj
12	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wings	acl:relcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 carried	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carried	obl:unmarked
17	without	without	SCONJ	_	18 getting	mark
18	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 carried	advcl
19	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 getting	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	bee	two lovely gauze wings			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	carry	past	two lovely gauze wings	bee	day		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	get	gerund	two lovely gauze wings not said here			tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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