More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 92
Well, one Sunday morning he was fishing as usual, and not a salmon had risen to him, his basket was bare of roach or dace.
Who acts: fishing, basket · What happens: fish, rise, be · To what, where: salmon, fishing
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishing, basket), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 fishing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 morning | nummod |
| 4 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 morning | compound |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fishing | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fishing | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fishing | aux |
| 8 | fishing | fish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 usual | case |
| 10 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fishing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 risen | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 risen | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 salmon | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 salmon | det |
| 15 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 risen | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 risen | aux |
| 17 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fishing | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 risen | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bare | punct |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 basket | nmod:poss |
| 22 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bare | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 bare | cop |
| 24 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 risen | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 roach | case |
| 26 | roach | roach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bare | obl |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 dace | cc |
| 28 | dace | dace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 roach | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fishing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fish | past · progressive | fishing | morning | as usual | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | rise | past · perfect · passive | a salmon | fishing | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent to he=Result | ||||
| 3 | is | past | fishing's basket | of roach or dace; bare 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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