The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 114
The brothers were now in greater despair than ever.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: be · To what, where: greater despair
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | 2 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 despair | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 despair | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 despair | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 despair | case |
| 6 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 despair | amod |
| 7 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 ever | case |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 despair | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 despair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the brothers | greater despair | now | 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 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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