The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 96
But the servants were many, and the princes only two.
Who acts: servants · What happens: be
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 (servants), 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 | _ | 5 many | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 servants | det |
| 3 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 many | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 many | cop |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 princes | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 princes | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princes | det |
| 9 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 many | parataxis |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 two | advmod |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 princes | appos |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 many | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the servants | many property | 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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