The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 72

In that way he would escape the little man who had watched him before.

Who acts: remainder, little man · What happens: escape, watch · To what, where: little man, way, remainder

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remainder, little 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 escape	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 escape	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 escape	aux
6	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 escape	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 watched	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 watched	aux
12	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 man	acl:relcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 watched	obj
14	before	before	ADV	_	12 watched	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 escape	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	would	remainder	the little man		that way			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Initial_Location
2	watch	past · perfect	the little man	remainder				before property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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