The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 91
The preparations of the emperor’s youngest daughter were much fewer and simpler than those of her sisters.
Who acts: preparations · What happens: be, prepare · To what, where: youngest daughter
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (preparations), 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 preparations | det |
| 2 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fewer | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 daughter | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 emperor | det |
| 5 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 emperor | case |
| 7 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 daughter | amod |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 preparations | nmod |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fewer | cop |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 fewer | advmod |
| 11 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 simpler | cc |
| 13 | simpler | simple | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 fewer | conj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 those | case |
| 15 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 simpler | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sisters | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 those | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fewer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the preparations of the emperor's youngest daughter | few property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the preparations of the emperor's youngest daughter not said here | than those | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | prepare | the emperor's youngest daughter | nom preparation «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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