The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 52

Too long a tongue is worse than too long a nose, and I remember when I was young that I was so much admired for not being a great chatterer.

Who acts: tongue, I · What happens: be, remember, admire, not be · To what, where: I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tongue, I), 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	Too	too	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 worse	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tongue	det
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worse	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 worse	cop
6	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	11 nose	case
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 long	advmod
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 nose	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 nose	det
11	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worse	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remember	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 remember	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 remember	nsubj
15	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 worse	conj
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 young	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 young	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 young	cop
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 remember	ccomp
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 admired	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 admired	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 admired	aux:pass
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADV	_	25 admired	advmod
25	admired	admire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 young	advcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	31 chatterer	case
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 chatterer	advmod
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 chatterer	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 chatterer	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 chatterer	amod
31	chatterer	chatterer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 admired	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 worse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a tongue		than a nose; bad, long property	tree rules
2	remember	present	I			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	I		young property	tree rules
4	admire	past · passive		I		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	not is	gerund			for a great chatterer	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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