The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 70
‘You are more beautiful than I ever was.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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 | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 was | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 was | nsubj |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 was | advmod |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | I | ever | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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