The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 8

Florea, the eldest, was so tall and broad-shouldered that no man in the kingdom could approach him.

Who acts: Florea, man · What happens: be, shoulder, approach · To what, where: Florea

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Florea, man), 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	Florea	Florea	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tall	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eldest	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eldest	det
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	1 Florea	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Florea	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tall	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 tall	advmod
8	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shouldered	cc
10	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shouldered	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 broad	punct
12	shouldered	shoulder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tall	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 approach	mark
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 approach	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 kingdom	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kingdom	det
18	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	nmod
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 approach	aux
20	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 shouldered	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 approach	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Florea		tall property	tree rules
2	shoulder	participle	Florea not said here			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	approach	could	no man in the kingdom	Florea		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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