The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 3
‘Why, there is not a girl in my own country that can be compared to her.
What happens: be, compare · To what, where: own country, girl
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 country | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 is | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 country | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 girl | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 country | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 country | amod |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 compared | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 compared | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 compared | aux:pass |
| 16 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 country | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 compared | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 country | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | my own country | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | compare | can · passive | my own country | girl | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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