The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 101

As he passed the Wise Man he contrived not only to steal the bottle but to place two black dots on his face, and one on the faces of twenty other men.

Who acts: Lad · What happens: pass, contrive, not steal · To what, where: Wise Man, bottle

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lad), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 passed	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 contrived	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Man	det
5	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Man	amod
6	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 contrived	nsubj
8	contrived	contrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 steal	advmod
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 steal	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 steal	mark
12	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 contrived	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bottle	det
14	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 steal	obj
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 place	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 place	mark
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 steal	conj
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 dots	nummod
19	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dots	amod
20	dots	dot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 place	appos
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 face	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 face	nmod:poss
23	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dots	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 one	cc
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 dots	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 faces	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 faces	det
29	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 one	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 men	case
31	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 men	nummod
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 men	amod
33	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 faces	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 contrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pass	past	Lad	the Wise Man	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Trajectory
2	contrive	past	Lad		tree rules
3	not steal	to-infinitive	Lad not said here	the bottle	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bottle=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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