The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 122
Never did any lady have more wit than she, and in her youth none was more lovely; even yet she is good to look upon.’
Who acts: lady · What happens: not have, be, look · To what, where: more wit, none
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 have | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 lady | det |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 wit | amod |
| 7 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 she | case |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wit | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lovely | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lovely | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 none | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 none | nmod:poss |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 none | compound |
| 15 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 18 lovely | obl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lovely | cop |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 lovely | advmod |
| 18 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 have | parataxis |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 good | punct |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 yet | advmod |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 24 good | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 good | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 good | cop |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lovely | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 look | mark |
| 26 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 good | csubj |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 look | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | past · do-support | any lady | more wit | than Rhiannon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | none | lovely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | lady | yet | good property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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