The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 13

Now there was at the Court a young man, who was more clever and handsome than anyone else.

Who acts: young man · What happens: be · To what, where: young man

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 Court	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Court	det
6	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 clever	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 clever	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 clever	cop
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 clever	advmod
14	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 handsome	cc
16	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 clever	conj
17	than	than	ADP	_	18 anyone	case
18	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 clever	obl
19	else	else	ADV	_	18 anyone	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a young man		tree rules
2	is	past	a young man		than anyone; clever property	tree rules
3	be		a young man not said here			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 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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