The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 13

But your other sorrow is much older than this.

Who acts: other sorrow, your · What happens: be, sorrow

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other sorrow, your), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 older	cc
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sorrow	nmod:poss
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sorrow	amod
4	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 older	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 older	cop
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 older	advmod
7	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 this	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 older	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 older	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	your other sorrow					than this; old property	tree rules
2	sorrow		your						nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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