The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 10
But this time also the beardless man had been too clever for him, and had arrived first by another road.
Who acts: time · What happens: be, arrive
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 clever | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clever | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 man | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | beardless | beardless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 clever | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 clever | cop |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 clever | advmod |
| 11 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 clever | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 arrived | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 arrived | cc |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 arrived | aux |
| 17 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 clever | parataxis |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 arrived | advmod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 road | case |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 road | det |
| 21 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arrived | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | this time the beardless man | for man; clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past · perfect | by another road; first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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