The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 93

Long before the sun was up next morning, all the twelve men were on foot.

Who acts: sun, twelve men · What happens: be · To what, where: foot

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, twelve men), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 foot	advmod
2	before	before	ADP	_	8 morning	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 morning	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 morning	cop
6	up	up	ADV	_	8 morning	advmod
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 morning	amod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Long	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Long	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 men	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 men	det
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 men	nummod
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 foot	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 foot	cop
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 foot	case
16	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 foot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sun				before next morning		tree rules
2	is	past	all twelve men			foot		long 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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