The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 133
Everything was very small in the little house, but cleaner and neater than anything you can imagine.
Who acts: Everything, you · What happens: be, imagine · To what, where: little house
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 small | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 small | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 small | advmod |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 small | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cleaner | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 cleaner | cc |
| 11 | cleaner | clean | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 small | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 neater | cc |
| 13 | neater | neat | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 cleaner | conj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 anything | case |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 cleaner | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 imagine | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 imagine | aux |
| 18 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 anything | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Everything | the little house | small property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | Everything not said here | than anything | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | imagine | can | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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