The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 99

Once upon a time there were three Princesses who were all three young and beautiful; but the youngest, although she was not fairer than the other two, was the most loveable of them all.

Who acts: three Princesses, Kletke, youngest · What happens: be, not be

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three Princesses, Kletke, youngest), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 were	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 youngest	cop
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 Princesses	nummod
8	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 young	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 young	cop
11	all	all	ADV	_	13 young	advmod
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 young	nummod
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Princesses	acl:relcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 beautiful	cc
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 young	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 youngest	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 youngest	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 youngest	det
19	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 loveable	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fairer	punct
21	although	although	SCONJ	_	25 fairer	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fairer	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fairer	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 fairer	advmod
25	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 youngest	parataxis
26	than	than	ADP	_	29 two	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 two	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 two	amod
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 fairer	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 youngest	punct
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 loveable	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 loveable	det
33	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	34 loveable	advmod
34	loveable	loveable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 loveable	obl
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 them	nmod:unmarked
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 loveable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	three Princesses	all, young property	tree rules
2	be		three Princesses not said here		tree rules
3	is	past		young property	tree rules
4	not is	past	Kletke	than the other two; fair property	tree rules
5	is	past	the youngest	of Princesses = princess; loveable 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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