The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 39
The former youths had been handsome, but this one was handsomer still.
Who acts: former youths, one · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (former youths, one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youths | det |
| 2 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 youths | amod |
| 3 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 handsome | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 handsome | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 handsome | cop |
| 6 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 handsomer | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 handsomer | cc |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 handsomer | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 handsomer | cop |
| 12 | handsomer | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 handsome | conj |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 handsomer | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 handsome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the former youths | handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | this one | still | handsome 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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