English Fairy Tales, Mouse and Mouser, sentence 18

The richer you were, good body, good body, The richer you were, good body.

Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: good body

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mouse and Mouser. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 richer	det
2	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 richer	advcl
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 body	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 body	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 body	punct
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 body	amod
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 richer	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 body	punct
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 body	amod
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 body	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 richer	punct
12	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 richer	det
13	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 body	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 body	cop
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 body	punct
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 body	amod
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 richer	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 richer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	you	good body and good body					tree rules
2	is a	past	you	good body					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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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