The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 1
‘There is no man in the world equal to him,’ replied the countess, her cheeks growing red with anger.
Who acts: cheeks · What happens: be, reply, grow · To what, where: man, countess
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheeks), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 equal | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 9 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 equal | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 equal | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 countess | det |
| 16 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cheeks | punct |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 countess | appos |
| 20 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 cheeks | acl |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 growing | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 anger | case |
| 23 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 growing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 equal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | man | equal property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the countess | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent countess=Topic | |||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | her cheeks not said here | with anger; red property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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