The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 26

Yes! there was, and it was much surer than the other, though rather more difficult.

Who acts: way · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 was	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 surer	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 surer	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 surer	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 surer	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 surer	cop
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 surer	advmod
10	surer	sure	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 other	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 other	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 surer	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 difficult	punct
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 difficult	mark
16	rather	rather	ADV	_	17 more	advmod
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 difficult	advmod
18	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 surer	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 surer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	way					than the other; sure property	tree rules
2	be		way not said here						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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