The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 18
But fairer than that fairy fabric, fairer than all else in that radiant vision was the maiden’s radiant face.
What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 fairer | cc |
| 2 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 fairer | advcl |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 fabric | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 fabric | det |
| 5 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fabric | amod |
| 6 | fabric | fabric | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fairer | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fairer | punct |
| 8 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 maiden | det |
| 11 | else | else | ADV | _ | 10 all | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 vision | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 vision | det |
| 14 | radiant | radiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 vision | amod |
| 15 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 all | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 maiden | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 maiden | det |
| 18 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 maiden | case |
| 20 | radiant | radiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 face | amod |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fairer | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fairer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | 's all maiden | 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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (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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