The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 2
My brave nurse didn’t escape no more than another.
Who acts: brave nurse · What happens: not escape · To what, where: more
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brave nurse), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nurse | amod |
| 3 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 escape | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 escape | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 escape | advmod |
| 6 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 escape | obj |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 another | case |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 more | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 escape | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not escape | past · do-support | My brave nurse | more | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Initial_Location |
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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