The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 44

‘She is harder than these rocks,’ said the girl to herself, ‘yes, a thousand times harder.

Who acts: Tephany, girl · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Tephany · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tephany, girl), 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	_	4 harder	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 harder	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 harder	cop
4	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 rocks	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 rocks	det
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rocks	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 rocks	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 harder	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 herself	case
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 harder	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 harder	punct
17	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	22 harder	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 harder	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 thousand	det
20	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 times	nummod
21	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 harder	obl:unmarked
22	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 harder	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 harder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tephany			hard property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the girl	Tephany		than this rocks	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
3	be		Tephany not said here		time		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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