The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 4

He was less fond of adventures than men of rank usually were in those days, and was not famous for strength or feats of arms.

Who acts: Ring · What happens: be, not be

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ring), 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 fond	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	cop
3	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 fond	amod
4	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 adventures	case
6	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fond	obl
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 men	case
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 adventures	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 rank	case
10	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 men	nmod
11	usually	usually	ADV	_	15 days	advmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 days	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 days	case
14	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 days	det
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 adventures	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 famous	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 famous	cc
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 famous	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 famous	advmod
20	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fond	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 strength	case
22	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 famous	obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 feats	cc
24	feats	feat	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 strength	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 arms	case
26	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 feats	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ring		of adventures than men of rank and that days; fond property	tree rules
2	is	past	Ring not said here	in that days	usually property	tree rules
3	not is	past	Ring not said here		for strength or feats of arms; famous 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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