The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 105

You look like herds-women compared with her, and the second Princess is also much prettier than you; but the youngest, who is my sweetheart, is more beautiful than either sun or moon.

Who acts: You, women, second Princess · What happens: look, compare, be · To what, where: herds, sweetheart

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, women, second Princess), 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 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 herds	case
4	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	obl
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 women	punct
6	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 compared	nsubj
7	compared	compare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 herds	acl:relcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 compared	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 prettier	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 prettier	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Princess	det
13	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 Princess	amod
14	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 prettier	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 prettier	cop
16	also	also	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 prettier	advmod
18	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 look	conj
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 prettier	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 beautiful	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 beautiful	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 youngest	det
24	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 beautiful	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sweetheart	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 sweetheart	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 sweetheart	cop
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sweetheart	nmod:poss
29	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 youngest	vocative
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 youngest	punct
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 beautiful	cop
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 beautiful	advmod
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	parataxis
34	than	than	ADP	_	36 sun	case
35	either	either	CCONJ	_	36 sun	cc:preconj
36	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 beautiful	obl
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 moon	cc
38	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sun	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	You		like herds	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	compare	past	women	herds not said here	with Princess	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent herd=Patient with she=Co-Patient
3	is	present	the second Princess		than you; pretty property	tree rules
4	is a	present		my sweetheart		tree rules
5	is	present			than sun or moon; the youngest obl; beautiful property	tree rules

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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