The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 100

What bird was there whose flight was swifter than his?

Who acts: flight · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flight), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 there	nsubj
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 there	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 flight	nmod:poss
6	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swifter	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 swifter	cop
8	swifter	swift	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 there	conj
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 his	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 swifter	nmod:poss
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						there property	tree rules
2	is	past	flight					swift property	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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