The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 45
One day Pivi and Kabo thought that they would make slings, and practice slinging, as the people of the island still do.
Who acts: Pivi, people · What happens: think, make, sling, do · To what, where: slings · 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 (Pivi, people), 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 | 6 thought | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Kabo | cc |
| 5 | Kabo | Kabo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pivi | conj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 make | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | slings | sling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slinging | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 slinging | cc |
| 14 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slinging | compound |
| 15 | slinging | sling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 thought | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 people | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 do | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 island | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 island | det |
| 22 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 people | nmod |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 do | advmod |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 slinging | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Pivi and Kabo | day | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | would | Pivi | slings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sling=Product | ||||
| 3 | sling | gerund | Pivi and Kabo not said here | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | present | the people of the island | still | vn act-114-1 «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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