The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 14

In one window I beheld four and twenty damsels, and the least fair of them was fairer than Guenevere at her fairest.

Who acts: I, least fair · What happens: behold, be · To what, where: four damsels, one window, fairest

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, least fair), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 window	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 window	nummod
3	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beheld	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 beheld	nsubj
5	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 damsels	nummod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 twenty	cc
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 four	conj
9	damsels	damsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 beheld	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fairer	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fairer	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fair	det
13	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 fair	amod
14	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fairer	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fair	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fairer	cop
18	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 beheld	conj
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 Guenevere	case
20	Guenevere	Guenevere	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 fairer	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 fairest	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 fairest	nmod:poss
23	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 fairer	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behold	past	I	four damsels		one window			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer damsel=Stimulus
2	is	past	the least fair of damsels			whale's fairest		than Guenevere; fair 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 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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