The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 70

He was taller by about the breadth of my nail than any of his Court, which alone was enough to strike awe into the beholders, and graceful and majestic.

Who acts: Emperor, Court · What happens: be, strike · To what, where: awe, beholders

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, Court), 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	3 taller	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taller	cop
3	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 breadth	case
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 breadth	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 breadth	det
7	breadth	breadth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taller	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 nail	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nail	nmod:poss
10	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 breadth	nmod
11	than	than	ADP	_	15 Court	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 Court	det
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Court	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 Court	nmod:poss
15	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 taller	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 enough	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 enough	nsubj
18	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 enough	advmod
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 enough	cop
20	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Court	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 strike	mark
22	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 enough	advcl
23	awe	awe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 strike	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 beholders	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 beholders	det
26	beholders	beholder	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 strike	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 graceful	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 graceful	cc
29	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 taller	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 majestic	cc
31	majestic	majestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 graceful	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 taller	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Emperor		by the breadth of my nail; than Emperor's Court; tall property	tree rules
2	is	past	Emperor's Court		alone, enough property	tree rules
3	strike	to-infinitive	Emperor's Court not said here	awe	into the beholders result	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent awe=Patient into beholder=Result
4	be		Emperor 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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