The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 9

They have no lessons except in tracking and catching birds, beasts, fishes, lizards, and snakes, all of which they eat.

Who acts: troubles, snakes · What happens: have, catch, eat · To what, where: lessons, birds

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troubles, snakes), 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 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 lessons	det
4	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	except	except	ADP	_	7 tracking	case
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 tracking	case
7	tracking	tracking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lessons	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 catching	cc
9	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 tracking	conj
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 catching	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 beasts	punct
12	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 birds	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fishes	punct
14	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 birds	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lizards	punct
16	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 birds	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 eat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 eat	cc
19	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 eat	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 eat	punct
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 which	det
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 eat	nsubj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 eat	nsubj
25	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	troubles = trouble	no lessons	except tracking	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Patient
2	catch	gerund	troubles = trouble not said here	birds and beasts and fishes and lizards		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
3	eat	present	snakes			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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