The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 52

With her large experience, added to her native spite, she found but little difficulty in carrying off Fairer-than-a-Fairy.

Who acts: eldest, little difficulty · What happens: add, find, carry off, experience, spite · To what, where: large experience, little difficulty, Fairer

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (eldest, little difficulty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:1598): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	4 experience	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 experience	nmod:poss
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 experience	amod
4	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 added	punct
6	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 experience	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 spite	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 spite	nmod:poss
9	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spite	amod
10	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 added	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 added	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	but	but	ADV	_	15 little	advmod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 difficulty	amod
16	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obj
17	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 carrying	mark
18	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 difficulty	acl
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 carrying	compound:prt
20	Fairer	Fairer	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 carrying	obj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Fairer	punct
22	than	than	ADP	_	26 Fairy	case
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 Fairy	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 Fairy	det
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 Fairy	punct
26	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Fairer	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	participle		eldest's large experience not said here	to eldest's native spite	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to spite=Co-Patient
2	find	past	eldest = eld	little difficulty	with eldest's large experience	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Topic
3	carry off	gerund	little difficulty not said here	Fairer	than a Fairy	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairer=Theme
4	experience		eldest = eld			nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
5	spite		eldest = eld			nom spite «feeling transitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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