The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 58

Just as before, the shoemaker saw them a long way off, and began to think how he could outwit them again.

Who acts: shoemaker, band · What happens: see, begin, think, outwit · To what, where: others · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoemaker, band), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	3 before	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 before	advmod
3	before	before	ADV	_	7 saw	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 before	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shoemaker	det
6	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obl:unmarked
12	off	off	ADV	_	11 way	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 think	mark
17	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 outwit	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 outwit	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 outwit	aux
21	outwit	outwit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 think	ccomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 outwit	obj
23	again	again	ADV	_	21 outwit	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the shoemaker	others = other		a long way obl:unmarked; before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	begin	past	the shoemaker not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the shoemaker not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	outwit	could	band	others = other	again		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=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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