Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 50
My husband is not nearly as handsome as that man.
Who acts: husband · What happens: not be
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 handsome | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 handsome | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 handsome | advmod |
| 5 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 7 handsome | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 handsome | advmod |
| 7 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 handsome | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 handsome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | My husband | as that man; handsome, nearly 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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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