The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 13

The second was also finely dressed, but younger in appearance, and also sat on a chair, but it was not so grand as the first one’s.

Who acts: chair · What happens: dress, sit, not be · To what, where: second, chair

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chair), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 second	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 dressed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dressed	aux:pass
4	also	also	ADV	_	6 dressed	advmod
5	finely	finely	ADV	_	6 dressed	advmod
6	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 younger	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 younger	cc
9	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 dressed	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 appearance	case
11	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 younger	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
14	also	also	ADV	_	15 sat	advmod
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dressed	parataxis
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 chair	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 chair	det
18	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grand	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 grand	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 grand	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 grand	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 grand	advmod
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 grand	advmod
25	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sat	conj
26	as	as	ADP	_	29 one	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 one	det
28	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 one	amod
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grand	obl
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 one	case
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dress	past · passive		the second		finely property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	sit	past			a chair		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location
3	not is	past	chair			as the first one; grand 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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