The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 83

He is skilled in magic more than most fishes.’

What happens: skill · To what, where: father, magic

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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: 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 skilled	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 skilled	aux:pass
3	skilled	skill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 magic	case
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 skilled	obl
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 skilled	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 fishes	case
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 fishes	amod
9	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 more	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 skilled	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 skilled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skill	present · passive		father		magic			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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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