The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 3

The men were as dirty and ragged as gipsies, and there were besides a quantity of old women and half-naked children.

Who acts: men · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dirty	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dirty	cop
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 dirty	case
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ragged	cc
7	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dirty	conj
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 gipsies	case
9	gipsies	gipsy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ragged	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 besides	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 besides	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 besides	expl
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 besides	cop
14	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dirty	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 quantity	det
16	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 besides	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 women	case
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 women	amod
19	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 quantity	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 children	cc
21	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	23 naked	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 half	punct
23	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 children	amod
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 women	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dirty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the men		dirty property	tree rules
2	be		the men not said here		as gipsies	tree rules
3	is	past	the men not said here	there	beside 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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