The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 76

The bride granted her this, because the dress was so beautiful and she had so few like it.

Who acts: bride, dress · What happens: grant, be · To what, where: this, leg

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, dress), 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 bride	det
2	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 granted	nsubj
3	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 granted	obj
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 granted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 beautiful	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 beautiful	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dress	det
9	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beautiful	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 beautiful	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 beautiful	advmod
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 granted	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 few	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 few	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 few	aux
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 few	advmod
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beautiful	conj
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 few	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 granted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grant	past	the bride	this	leg		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal this=Theme
2	is	past	the dress			beautiful property	tree rules
3	be	past	bride			like dress	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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