The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 70

But at length there came a day when the cobbler could bear it no longer, and he threw away his last, and borrowing a rod from a neighbour he went out to fish.

Who acts: length, cobbler · What happens: come, bear, throw away, borrow, go out · To what, where: length, rod, neighbour

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (length, cobbler), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 came	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 length	case
3	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 length	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl:unmarked
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 bear	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cobbler	det
10	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bear	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 bear	aux
12	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bear	obj
14	no	no	ADV	_	15 longer	advmod
15	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 bear	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 threw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 threw	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 threw	nsubj
19	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 threw	advmod
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 last	nmod:poss
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 threw	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
25	borrowing	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 went	csubj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 rod	det
27	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 borrowing	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 neighbour	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 neighbour	det
30	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 borrowing	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
33	out	out	ADV	_	32 went	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 fish	case
35	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 went	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	length			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bear	could	the cobbler	length			long property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	throw away	past	cobbler				away, last property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	borrow	gerund		a rod	a neighbour			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rod=Theme from neighbour=Source
5	go out	past	cobbler				to fish; out property	vn interact-36.6 «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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