The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 81
The finer one is the more one can beat.’
Who acts: finer one, more one · What happens: be, beat · To what, where: more one
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (finer one, more one), 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 | 3 one | det |
| 2 | finer | fine | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 beat | aux |
| 9 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 one | acl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the finer one | the more one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beat | can | the more one not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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