The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 130
“We shall catch it, and dry it, and kipper it,” said Pivi, “and give a dinner to all our friends!”
Who acts: We, Pivi · What happens: catch, dry, say, give · To what, where: fish, dinner, friends · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, Pivi), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 catch | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 catch | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 catch | aux |
| 4 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 catch | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dry | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dry | cc |
| 8 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 catch | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dry | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kipper | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kipper | cc |
| 12 | kipper | kipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 catch | obl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 catch | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 catch | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 catch | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 give | cc |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dinner | det |
| 23 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 give | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 friends | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 friends | det:predet |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 friends | nmod:poss |
| 27 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 give | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch in a quote | shall | We | fish | kipper obl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary it=Theme | |||
| 2 | dry in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | fish | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | Pivi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | infinitive | a dinner | our friends | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme to friend=Recipient |
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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