The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 146

‘I prefer him to all those beautiful animals.’

Who acts: I · What happens: prefer · To what, where: prince

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 prefer	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 prefer	nsubj
3	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 prefer	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 animals	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 animals	det:predet
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 animals	det
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prefer	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 prefer	punct
11	’	'	SYM	_	3 prefer	discourse

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prefer	present	I	prince				to all beautiful animals	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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