The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 87

The robbers were more like savage beasts than men, and lived somewhere at the top of the mountain in caves and holes in the ground.

Who acts: robbers · What happens: be, live · To what, where: top

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers), 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 robbers	det
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lived	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 more	cop
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 robbers	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 beasts	case
6	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beasts	amod
7	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 robbers	nmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 men	case
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 beasts	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lived	cc
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 lived	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 top	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 top	det
16	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 mountain	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mountain	det
19	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 top	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 caves	case
21	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 mountain	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 holes	cc
23	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 caves	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 holes	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						more property	tree rules
2	live	past	the robbers like savage beasts than men			the top of the mountain in caves and holes in the ground		somewhere property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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