The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 88

The other said but little but he was well acquainted with the way, and it was no long time before they arrived at the gate.

Who acts: other, fun, men · What happens: say, acquaint, be, arrive · To what, where: Hans, long time, gate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, fun, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 other	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 little	cc
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	conj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 acquainted	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 acquainted	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 acquainted	aux:pass
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 acquainted	advmod
10	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	ccomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 way	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 acquainted	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 time	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 time	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 time	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 time	cop
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 time	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 acquainted	obl:unmarked
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 arrived	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 arrived	nsubj
23	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 time	advcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 gate	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 gate	det
26	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 arrived	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the other				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	acquaint speech: other	past · passive		Hans		with the way; well property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	is a	past	fun	no long time			tree rules
4	arrive	past	men = man		the gate		vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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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