The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 7

His two brothers were as jealous of him as they could be, for they thought that with his good looks he would be sure to be more fortunate than they would ever be.

Who acts: two brothers, brothers, Ferko · What happens: be, think, look

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 (two brothers, brothers, Ferko), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brothers	nmod:poss
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 brothers	nummod
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jealous	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 jealous	cop
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 jealous	case
6	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 jealous	obl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 be	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 be	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 be	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 jealous	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 thought	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 jealous	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 looks	mark
18	with	with	SCONJ	_	20 good	mark
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 good	nmod:poss
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 looks	advcl
21	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 thought	advcl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sure	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 sure	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 sure	cop
25	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 looks	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	29 fortunate	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 fortunate	cop
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 fortunate	advmod
29	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sure	ccomp
30	than	than	SCONJ	_	34 be	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 be	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 be	aux
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 be	advmod
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 fortunate	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 jealous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ferko's two brothers	of Ferko; jealous property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	brothers = brother		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	present	brothers = brother not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	would	Ferko	sure property	tree rules
5	is	to-infinitive	Ferko not said here	fortunate 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 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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