The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 39

Last came the white-bearded man, but he fared no better than the rest.

Who acts: Last, man · What happens: come, fare

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Last, man), 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	Last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bearded	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 white	punct
6	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fared	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 fared	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fared	nsubj
11	fared	fare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
12	no	no	ADV	_	13 better	advmod
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 fared	xcomp
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 rest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rest	det
16	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 better	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Last						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fare	past	man					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 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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