Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 11

They had three boats full of fish, and they said, "We have caught more fish to-day than in all the other days that we have been on this island."

Who acts: Danes, other days · What happens: have, say, catch, be · To what, where: three boats, We, island · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Beggar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Danes, other days), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 boats	nummod
4	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boats	amod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 fish	case
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 caught	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 caught	punct
14	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 caught	nsubj:pass
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 caught	aux
16	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 fish	amod
18	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 caught	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 day	case
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 to	punct
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 caught	obl
22	than	than	ADP	_	27 days	case
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 days	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 days	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 days	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 days	amod
27	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 caught	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 island	nsubj
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 island	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 island	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 island	cop
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 island	case
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 island	det
34	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 days	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	Danes = dane	three boats			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Danes = dane				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	catch in a quote	present · perfect · passive		We		day	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary fish=Theme
4	is in a quote	present · perfect	all other days		this island		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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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