The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 148

He is not the first who has been a thief by trade and he will certainly not be the last.”

Who acts: Simon · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: thief

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 first	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 first	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 first	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 first	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 thief	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thief	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 thief	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thief	det
10	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 first	acl:relcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 trade	case
12	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thief	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 last	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 last	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 last	aux
16	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	20 last	advmod
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 last	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 last	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 last	det
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 first	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 first	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 first	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Simon		first property	tree rules
2	is a	present · perfect		a thief	by trade	tree rules
3	not is	future	Simon		certainly, last 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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