The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 37
As he was a hundred times handsomer and braver than the Ambassador, the Princess found she could like him very much.
Who acts: son, Princess, Ambassador · What happens: be, find, like · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, Princess, Ambassador), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 handsomer | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 handsomer | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 handsomer | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hundred | det |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 times | nummod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 handsomer | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | handsomer | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 braver | cc |
| 9 | braver | brave | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 handsomer | conj |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 Ambassador | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Ambassador | det |
| 12 | Ambassador | Ambassador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 braver | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | nsubj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 handsomer | conj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 like | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 like | aux |
| 19 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 found | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 like | obj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 like | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 handsomer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | son | time | handsome property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | son not said here | than the Ambassador | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find | past | the Princess | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | like | could | Ambassador | son | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
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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