The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 155

“It was quite dry inside the shell, and I worked away at the fish with my spear, till he saw reason to open his shell, and out I came.”

Who acts: spear, Pivi, shell · What happens: be, work away, see, open, come · To what, where: shell, reason

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 (spear, Pivi, shell), 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	_	5 dry	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dry	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 dry	advmod
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	8 shell	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shell	det
8	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dry	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 worked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 worked	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 worked	nsubj
12	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dry	conj
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 worked	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 fish	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fish	det
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 worked	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 spear	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 spear	nmod:poss
19	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fish	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	23 saw	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 worked	parataxis
24	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 open	mark
26	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 reason	acl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 shell	nmod:poss
28	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 open	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 came	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 came	cc
31	out	out	ADV	_	33 came	advmod
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saw	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dry	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 dry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	spear		the shell	dry property	tree rules
2	work away in a quote	past	Pivi			at the fish with my spear; away property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fish=Theme
3	see in a quote	past	shell	reason			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus
4	open in a quote	to-infinitive	shell not said here	shell's shell			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme
5	come in a quote	past	Pivi			out property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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