The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 15

But she was really far prettier and cleverer than they were; indeed, she was so lovely that she was always called Beauty.

Who acts: youngest, girls · What happens: be, call · To what, where: youngest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, girls), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 prettier	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prettier	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prettier	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 prettier	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 prettier	advmod
6	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cleverer	cc
8	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 prettier	conj
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 lovely	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lovely	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lovely	cop
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 lovely	punct
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	18 lovely	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lovely	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lovely	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lovely	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 lovely	advmod
18	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prettier	appos
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 called	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 called	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 called	aux:pass
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 called	advmod
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 lovely	advcl
24	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 called	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 prettier	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	youngest = young		far, pretty property	tree rules
2	be		youngest = young not said here			tree rules
3	is	past	girls = girl		indeed, lovely property	tree rules
4	call	past · passive		youngest = young	always property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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