The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 78

You see it is so much more flattering to my vanity to be loved by a fairy than by a simple princess.

Who acts: You, gratitude, fairy · What happens: see, be, love · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, gratitude, fairy), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flattering	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 flattering	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 flattering	advmod
8	flattering	flatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 see	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 vanity	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 vanity	nmod:poss
11	vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flattering	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	14 loved	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 loved	aux:pass
14	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 vanity	acl
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 fairy	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fairy	det
17	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 loved	obl
18	than	than	ADP	_	22 princess	case
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 princess	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 princess	det
21	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 princess	amod
22	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 loved	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	see	present	You		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	is	present	gratitude	to my vanity; flatter property	tree rules
3	love	to-infinitive · passive	a fairy	than a simple princess	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

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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