Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 4

They were all good girls; but the youngest, named Balna, was more clever than the rest.

Who acts: daughters, good girls · What happens: be, name · To what, where: good girls, youngest

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, good girls), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 girls	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 girls	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 girls	advmod
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girls	amod
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 named	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 named	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 youngest	det
9	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 named	nsubj:pass
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 named	punct
11	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 girls	acl:relcl
12	Balna	Balna	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 named	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 clever	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 clever	cop
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 clever	advmod
16	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girls	conj
17	than	than	ADP	_	19 rest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rest	det
19	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clever	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 girls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	daughters = daughter	good girls	all property	tree rules
2	name	participle · passive	good girls not said here	the youngest		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	past	daughters = daughter not said here		than the rest; clever 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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