The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 33

Besides, when the whole six had supped off the man he was not so heavy to draw.

Who acts: bear · What happens: sup, not be, draw · To what, where: whole six, man

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear), 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	8 supped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 supped	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 supped	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 six	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 six	amod
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 supped	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 supped	aux
8	supped	sup	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	11 man	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 supped	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heavy	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heavy	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 heavy	advmod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 heavy	advmod
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 draw	mark
18	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 heavy	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 supped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sup	past · perfect · passive		the whole six	off the man	tree rules
2	not is	past	bear	the man not said here	heavy property	tree rules
3	draw	to-infinitive	bear not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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