The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 9

They were all fine handsome young men, who sat their horses as if they were part of them, but the finest and handsomest of all was the young emperor himself.

Who acts: sisters, fine handsome young men · What happens: be, sit · To what, where: fine handsome young men, horses, young emperor

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, fine handsome young men), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 men	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 men	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	7 men	advmod
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
5	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 men	acl:relcl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 horses	nmod:poss
12	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sat	obj
13	as	as	ADP	_	17 part	case
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 part	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 part	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 part	cop
17	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 part	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 handsomest	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 handsomest	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 handsomest	det
23	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 handsomest	amod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 handsomest	cc
25	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 emperor	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 all	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 handsomest	obl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 emperor	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 emperor	det
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 emperor	amod
31	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	conj
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	31 emperor	appos
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 men	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	sisters = sister	fine handsome young men	all property	tree rules
2	sit	past	fine handsome young men	sisters's horses		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	sisters = sister		as part; of horses = horse	tree rules
4	is a	past	fine handsome young men not said here	the young emperor	the finest handsomest obl	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 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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