The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 128

So, one day, Kabo came and asked Pivi to sail in his canoe to a place where he knew of a great big shell-fish, enough to feed on for a week.

Who acts: Kabo · What happens: come, ask, sail, know, feed on · To what, where: Pivi, canoe

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kabo), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	Kabo	Kabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
10	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 asked	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sail	mark
12	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 canoe	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 canoe	nmod:poss
15	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sail	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 place	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 place	det
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sail	obl
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 knew	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 place	acl:relcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	28 fish	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fish	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fish	amod
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fish	amod
26	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fish	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 shell	punct
28	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 knew	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 enough	punct
30	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fish	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 feed	mark
32	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 enough	advcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	32 feed	compound:prt
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 week	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 week	det
36	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 feed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Kabo			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	Kabo not said here	Pivi				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent pivi=Recipient clause=Topic
3	sail not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kabo not said here		Kabo's canoe		to a place	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to place=Trajectory
4	know	past	Kabo				of a great big shell fish	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of fish=Stimulus
5	feed on	to-infinitive	Kabo not said here			week		vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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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