The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 78

“The garden is larger and better than that of any other king.

Who acts: garden · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden), 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	_	5 larger	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 garden	det
3	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 larger	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 larger	cop
5	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 better	cc
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 larger	conj
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 larger	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 king	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 king	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 king	amod
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 that	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 larger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the garden					than that; large property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		the garden not said here						tree rules

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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