The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 37
Her brothers were not less delighted than she to see their little sister again, but their joy did not last long.
Who acts: brothers, maiden, joy · What happens: be, see, not last, joy · To what, where: little sister
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, maiden, joy), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 less | advmod |
| 5 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 delighted | advmod |
| 6 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 delighted | advcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sister | amod |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 see | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 last | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 last | cc |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 joy | nmod:poss |
| 18 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 last | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 last | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 last | advmod |
| 21 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 delighted | conj |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 last | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | maiden's brothers | delighted, less property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | maiden | brothers's little sister | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not last | past · do-support | brothers's joy | long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | joy | brothers = brother | nom joy «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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