The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 28
Among the women he remarked two young girls, more beautiful and better dressed than any of the rest, carrying between them two great baskets full of provisions.
Who acts: folk · What happens: remark, dress, carry · To what, where: two young girls, two great baskets
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folk), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 women | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 women | det |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 remarked | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 remarked | nsubj |
| 5 | remarked | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 girls | nummod |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girls | amod |
| 8 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 remarked | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 beautiful | advmod |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 remarked | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dressed | cc |
| 13 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 dressed | advmod |
| 14 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 beautiful | conj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 any | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 dressed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 rest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rest | det |
| 19 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 any | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 carrying | punct |
| 21 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 remarked | advcl |
| 22 | between | between | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 carrying | obl |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 baskets | nummod |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 baskets | amod |
| 26 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 carrying | obj |
| 27 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 baskets | amod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 provisions | case |
| 29 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 full | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | past | folk | two young girls | among the women | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | |||
| 2 | dress | participle | folk not said here | than any; well property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | folk not said here | two great baskets | between women = woman | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=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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