The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 58

‘The swallow is less swift than the wind, the wind is less swift than the lightning.

Who acts: swallow, wind · What happens: be · To what, where: less swift

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 (swallow, wind), 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	_	6 swift	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swallow	det
3	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swift	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 swift	cop
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 swift	amod
6	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 wind	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wind	det
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swift	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 swift	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swift	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 swift	cop
14	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 swift	amod
15	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swift	conj
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 lightning	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lightning	det
18	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swift	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 swift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the swallow	less swift and less swift				than the wind	tree rules
2	is a	present	the wind	less swift				than the lightning	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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