The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 40

And a man he was, and in the sweat of his brow he toiled again at his trade of stone-cutting.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, toil, trade · To what, where: sweat, stone cutting

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 was	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 was	nsubj
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 toiled	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 toiled	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sweat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sweat	det
10	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 toiled	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 brow	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brow	nmod:poss
13	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sweat	nmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 toiled	nsubj
15	toiled	toil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 was	parataxis
16	again	again	ADV	_	15 toiled	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 trade	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 trade	nmod:poss
19	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 toiled	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 cutting	case
21	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cutting	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 stone	punct
23	cutting	cutting	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trade	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a man					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	toil	past	man		the sweat of man's brow	again	at man's trade of stone cutting	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sweat=Trajectory
3	trade		man	stone cutting				nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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