English Fairy Tales, Mr. Fox, sentence 2
She had two brothers, and more lovers than she could count.
Who acts: Mary · What happens: have, count · To what, where: two brothers, more lovers
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mary), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lovers | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lovers | cc |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 lovers | amod |
| 8 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | parataxis |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 count | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 count | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 count | aux |
| 12 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lovers | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Mary | two brothers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | ||||
| 2 | count | could | Mary | more lovers not said here | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=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: «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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