The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 28
But though some managed to get further than others, nobody was anywhere near the top.
Who acts: nobody · What happens: manage, get, be · To what, where: some, top
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobody), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 managed | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 managed | mark |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 managed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 managed | xcomp |
| 7 | further | further | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 others | case |
| 9 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 anywhere | punct |
| 11 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 anywhere | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 anywhere | cop |
| 13 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 managed | advmod |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 top | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 top | det |
| 16 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 anywhere | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | participle · passive | some | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | than others; further property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | nobody | the top | anywhere 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 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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