The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 43

One day, when the little fellow was hungrier than usual, he asked his grandmother if he might go down to the river and catch a fish for their breakfast, as the thaw had come and the water was flowing freely again.

Who acts: little fellow, Hare, thaw, water · What happens: be, ask, go down, catch, come, flow · To what, where: grandmother, fish

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little fellow, Hare, thaw, water), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asked	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hungrier	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 hungrier	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fellow	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fellow	amod
7	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hungrier	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hungrier	cop
9	hungrier	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 day	acl:relcl
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 usual	case
11	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hungrier	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asked	nsubj
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 grandmother	nmod:poss
16	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asked	iobj
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 go	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 asked	ccomp
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 river	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 river	det
24	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 catch	cc
26	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	14 asked	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fish	det
28	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 catch	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 breakfast	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 breakfast	nmod:poss
31	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 catch	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 come	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 thaw	det
35	thaw	thaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 come	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
37	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 asked	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 flowing	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 water	det
40	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 flowing	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 flowing	aux
42	flowing	flow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 come	conj
43	freely	freely	ADV	_	42 flowing	advmod
44	again	again	ADV	_	42 flowing	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the little fellow				than usual; hungry property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	Hare		Hare's grandmother	day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent grandmother=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go down a condition, not said to happen	might	Hare				to the river; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	catch	present	Hare not said here	a fish			for ice's breakfast	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fish=Theme for breakfast=Beneficiary
5	come	past · perfect	the thaw					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	flow	past · progressive	the water			again	freely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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 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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