The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 70
But once more the brownie stepped in, and was better than ten labourers.
Who acts: brownie · What happens: step in, be
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brownie), 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 | _ | 6 stepped | cc |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 more | advmod |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 stepped | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brownie | det |
| 5 | brownie | brownie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stepped | nsubj |
| 6 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 stepped | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 better | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 better | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 better | cop |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 stepped | parataxis |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 labourers | case |
| 13 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 labourers | nummod |
| 14 | labourers | labourer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 better | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step in | past | the brownie | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | than ten labourers; good 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 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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