The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 2
They were all pretty, but the prettiest of all was the youngest daughter, who was so beautiful that there were no bounds to her beauty.
Who acts: children, youngest daughter, bounds · What happens: be · To what, where: youngest daughter
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, youngest daughter, bounds), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 prettiest | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 prettiest | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 pretty | advmod |
| 4 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 8 prettiest | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 prettiest | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 prettiest | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prettiest | det |
| 8 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 daughter | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 prettiest | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 daughter | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 daughter | det |
| 13 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 daughter | amod |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beautiful | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 beautiful | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 beautiful | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 beautiful | advmod |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 daughter | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 were | mark |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 were | expl |
| 22 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 beautiful | advcl |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 bounds | det |
| 24 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 were | nsubj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 beauty | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 27 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bounds | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 daughter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | children = child | of all; pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the youngest daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the youngest daughter | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | past | no bounds to husbandman's beauty | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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