The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 6

They were cousins as well as neighbours, and both were under the protection of the fairies; though it is only fair to say that the fairies did not love them half so well as their wives did.

Who acts: kings, both, it, fairies, wives · What happens: be, say, not love, do · To what, where: cousins, protection, kings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kings, both, it, fairies), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cousins	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cousins	cop
3	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	7 neighbours	cc
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 as	fixed
6	as	as	ADP	_	4 as	fixed
7	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cousins	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 protection	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 protection	cc
10	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	14 protection	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 protection	cop
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 protection	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 protection	det
14	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cousins	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 fairies	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fairies	det
17	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 protection	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 fair	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 fair	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fair	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 fair	cop
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 fair	advmod
23	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cousins	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 say	mark
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 fair	csubj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 love	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fairies	det
28	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 love	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 love	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 love	advmod
31	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 say	ccomp
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 love	obj
33	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	31 love	advmod
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 well	advmod
35	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 love	advmod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 did	mark
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 wives	nmod:poss
38	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 did	nsubj
39	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 well	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cousins	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	kings = king	cousins as neighbours and the protection			tree rules
2	is	past	both		the protection	of the fairies	tree rules
3	is	present	it			fair property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not love	past · do-support	the fairies	kings = king		half, well property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
6	do	past	kings's wives				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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