The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 10
He is so beautiful that everyone takes a fancy to him, which is more than they do to us.
Who acts: Ferko, everyone, brothers · What happens: be, take, do · To what, where: fancy, Ferko, us
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (Ferko, everyone, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 takes | mark |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 takes | nsubj |
| 7 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fancy | det |
| 9 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 takes | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 takes | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 more | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 more | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 more | cop |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 takes | conj |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 more | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 do | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Ferko | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | everyone | a fancy | Ferko | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | present | more property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | present | brothers = brother | us | 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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