The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 5

‘Big and handsome you were last year, my colt, but this year you are ever so much handsomer,’ said the youth; ‘in all the King’s court no such horse is to be found.

Who acts: you · What happens: be, say, find · To what, where: Big last year, youth, such horse, court · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 year	punct
2	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 year	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 handsome	cc
4	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Big	conj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 year	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 year	cop
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 year	amod
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 colt	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 colt	nmod:poss
11	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 year	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 handsomer	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 handsomer	cc
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 handsomer	obl:unmarked
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 handsomer	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 handsomer	cop
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 so	advmod
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	21 handsomer	advmod
21	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 year	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 year	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 year	punct
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 youth	det
26	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 found	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	41 found	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	34 court	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 court	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 King	det
32	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 court	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 King	case
34	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 found	obl
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 horse	det
36	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 horse	amod
37	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 found	nsubj:pass
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 found	aux:pass
39	to	to	PART	_	41 found	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 found	aux:pass
41	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 said	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	you	Big last year				tree rules
2	is	present	you			year	handsome property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past		the youth				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic
4	find	present · passive		no such horse	the King's court			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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