The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 27

The man thanked Jimmu, and said that few people would have been as honest as he.

Who acts: man, few people · What happens: thank, say, be · To what, where: Jimmu · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, few people), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	nsubj
3	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Jimmu	Jimmu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thanked	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 honest	mark
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 honest	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 honest	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 honest	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 honest	cop
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 honest	advmod
15	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 he	case
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 honest	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the man	Jimmu		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jimmu=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the man not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	would · perfect	few people		as Jimmu; honest property	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: «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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