The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 50

This took many days, and when at last they found the young man in the weaver’s cottage, he was so dirty and ugly and had such a strange appearance, that they declared he could not be the winner they had been searching for, but a wicked robber who had murdered ever so many people, but had always managed to escape.

Who acts: This, messengers, race, wicked robber · What happens: take, find, be, have, declare, not be · To what, where: young man, cottage, strange appearance, winner, many people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, messengers, race, wicked robber), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 last	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 last	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 last	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	conj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 last	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 cottage	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 weaver	det
17	weaver	weaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cottage	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 weaver	case
19	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dirty	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dirty	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 dirty	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 dirty	advmod
24	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ugly	cc
26	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dirty	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
29	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	32 appearance	det:predet
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 appearance	det
31	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 appearance	amod
32	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 declared	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 declared	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 declared	nsubj
36	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 had	conj
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 winner	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 winner	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 winner	advmod
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 winner	cop
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 winner	det
42	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 declared	ccomp
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 searching	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 searching	aux
45	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 searching	aux
46	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 winner	acl:relcl
47	for	for	ADP	_	46 searching	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 robber	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 robber	cc
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 robber	det
51	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 robber	amod
52	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 winner	appos
53	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 murdered	nsubj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 murdered	aux
55	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 robber	acl:relcl
56	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	55 murdered	advmod
57	so	so	ADV	_	58 many	advmod
58	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 people	amod
59	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 murdered	obj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 managed	punct
61	but	but	CCONJ	_	64 managed	cc
62	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 managed	aux
63	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	64 managed	advmod
64	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 took	conj
65	to	to	PART	_	66 escape	mark
66	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 managed	xcomp
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	This			day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	messengers = messenger	the young man	the weaver's cottage			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
3	is	past	race				dirty property	tree rules
4	be		race not said here					tree rules
5	have	past	This not said here	such strange appearance				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient
6	declare speech: other	past	messengers = messenger					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	not is a	could	race	the winner				tree rules
8	search	past · perfect · progressive	messengers = messenger	the winner not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent winner=Location
9	murder	past · perfect	a wicked robber	many people		ever		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
10	manage	past · perfect	This not said here				always property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
11	escape	to-infinitive	This not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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