The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 28

There was the black man on top of the mound, as he had said, and in truth he was mightier in all ways than I had thought him to be.

Who acts: black man, horse, I · What happens: be, say, think · To what, where: truth, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black man, horse, I), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 top	case
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 mound	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mound	det
10	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 top	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 said	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	aux
15	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 was	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mightier	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 mightier	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 truth	case
19	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mightier	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 mightier	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 mightier	cop
22	mightier	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 said	ccomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 ways	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 ways	det
25	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 mightier	obl
26	than	than	SCONJ	_	29 thought	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 thought	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 thought	aux
29	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 mightier	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 thought	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 be	mark
32	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 thought	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	the black man on top of the mound		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	horse				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	horse		truth	in all ways; mighty property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past · perfect	I	horse			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
5	be	to-infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «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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