The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 18

Mr. Ford, as usual, has drawn the monsters and mermaids, the princes and giants, and the beautiful princesses, who, the Editor thinks, are, if possible, prettier than ever.

Who acts: Editor · What happens: draw, think, be · To what, where: Ford, beautiful princesses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Editor), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ford	nmod:desc
2	Ford	Ford	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 drawn	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ford	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 usual	case
5	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Ford	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ford	punct
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 drawn	aux
8	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 monsters	det
10	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drawn	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mermaids	cc
12	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 monsters	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 princes	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princes	det
15	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 monsters	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 giants	cc
17	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 princes	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 princesses	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 princesses	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 princesses	det
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 princesses	amod
22	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drawn	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thinks	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 thinks	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 who	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Editor	det
27	Editor	Editor	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 thinks	nsubj
28	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 princesses	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 are	punct
30	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 thinks	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 possible	punct
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 possible	mark
33	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 are	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 prettier	punct
35	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 possible	conj
36	than	than	ADP	_	37 ever	case
37	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 prettier	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 drawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	present · perfect · passive		Ford Mr. as usual	the beautiful princesses obl	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary monster=Result
2	think speech: other	present	the Editor	the beautiful princesses		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	be	present				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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