English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 50

But at last the giant was through, and it wasn't long before he was like to catch them up.

Who acts: giant, it · What happens: be, catch up · To what, where: lovers

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, it), 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	_	17 like	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 like	amod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 last	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 last	cop
7	through	through	ADV	_	6 was	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 like	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 like	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 like	cop
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 like	advmod
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 like	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 like	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 like	cop
17	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 catch	mark
19	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 like	xcomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 catch	obj
21	up	up	ADP	_	19 catch	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the giant		last property	tree rules
2	is	past	it		like, long property	tree rules
3	catch up not said to happen	to-infinitive		lovers = lover		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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