Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 69

King Agenor, their father, was the ruler of the whole country; but he loved his little daughter Europa better than his kingdom, or than all his other children, or than anything else in the world.

Who acts: King · What happens: be, love · To what, where: ruler, little daughter

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ruler	nsubj
2	Agenor	Agenor	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 King	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 King	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 King	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ruler	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ruler	det
9	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 country	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 country	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 country	amod
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ruler	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 loved	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 loved	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 loved	nsubj
17	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ruler	parataxis
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 daughter	nmod:poss
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 daughter	amod
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 loved	obj
21	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 daughter	appos
22	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 loved	advmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	25 kingdom	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 kingdom	nmod:poss
25	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 better	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 children	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 children	cc
28	than	than	ADP	_	32 children	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 children	det:predet
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 children	nmod:poss
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 children	amod
32	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 loved	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 anything	punct
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 anything	cc
35	than	than	ADP	_	36 anything	case
36	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 ruler	conj
37	else	else	ADV	_	36 anything	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 world	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 world	det
40	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 anything	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ruler	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	King and boys's father	the ruler				of the whole country	tree rules
2	love	past	king	king's little daughter				than king's other children; well property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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