The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 42

The Irishman was little more than alive by this time.

Who acts: Irishman · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman), 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 Irishman	det
2	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 more	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 more	cop
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 more	obl:unmarked
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 alive	case
7	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 more	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 more	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 more	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Irishman				time	than alive; little obl:unmarked; more 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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