The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 32

He thought her much more haughty and stubborn and difficult to deal with than she used to be.

Who acts: son, Queen · What happens: think, deal, use, be · To what, where: Queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, Queen), 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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	obj
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 haughty	advmod
6	haughty	haughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stubborn	cc
8	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 haughty	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 difficult	cc
10	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 haughty	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 deal	mark
12	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 difficult	ccomp
13	with	with	SCONJ	_	16 used	mark
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 used	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 used	nsubj
16	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 deal	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 be	mark
18	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 used	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	son	Queen	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
2	deal	to-infinitive			tree rules
3	use	past	Queen		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	be	to-infinitive	Queen not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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