The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 88

He was a little brighter than the ashes that you sit grubbing among, you dirty black creature!” said the brothers.

Who acts: Cinderlad, ashes, you · What happens: be, sit, grub, dirty, say · To what, where: black creature, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cinderlad, ashes, you), 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 brighter	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brighter	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brighter	obl
5	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 said	ccomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 ashes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ashes	det
8	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 brighter	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 sit	nsubj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 sit	nsubj
11	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ashes	acl:relcl
12	grubbing	grub	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 sit	xcomp
13	among	among	ADP	_	12 grubbing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dirty	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 dirty	nsubj
16	dirty	dirty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 brighter	conj
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 creature	amod
18	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dirty	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 brighter	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 brighter	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 brothers	det
23	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 said	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Cinderlad		than the ashes; a little obl; bright property	tree rules
2	sit	present	the ashes			tree rules
3	grub	gerund	the ashes not said here			tree rules
4	dirty	present	you	black creature		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent creature=Patient
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the brothers		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brother=Topic

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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