The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 113

We are thirty sisters so exactly alike that our own father can hardly distinguish us apart.’

Who acts: We, own father · What happens: be, distinguish · To what, where: thirty sisters, us

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, own father), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sisters	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sisters	cop
3	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sisters	nummod
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 sisters	advmod
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 alike	advmod
7	alike	alike	ADP	_	5 so	fixed
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 distinguish	mark
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 father	amod
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 distinguish	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 distinguish	aux
13	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	14 distinguish	advmod
14	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sisters	acl
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 distinguish	obj
16	apart	apart	ADV	_	14 distinguish	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sisters	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 sisters	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	We	thirty sisters					tree rules
2	distinguish	can	our own father	us				apart, hardly property	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute we=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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