The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 112
He was no less amazed than his wife at this frightful spectacle.
Who acts: ogre · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogre), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 amazed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 amazed | cop |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 4 less | advmod |
| 4 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 amazed | advmod |
| 5 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 amazed | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 spectacle | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 spectacle | det |
| 11 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spectacle | amod |
| 12 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wife | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 amazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ogre | than ogre's wife at this frightful spectacle; amazed, less property | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/33/112/