The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 70

Now he would row--and he could row, for he had rowed so often on the step sat home, when the steps pretended to be a boat and father’s big stick an oar.

Who acts: Ditsch, step, steps, father · What happens: row, sit, pretend, be, stick · To what, where: boat

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ditsch, step, steps, father), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 row	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 row	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 row	aux
4	row	row	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 row	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 row	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 row	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 row	aux
9	row	row	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 row	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rowed	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 rowed	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rowed	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rowed	aux
14	rowed	row	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 row	parataxis
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 often	advmod
16	often	often	ADV	_	14 rowed	advmod
17	on	on	SCONJ	_	20 sat	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 step	det
19	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sat	nsubj
20	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rowed	advcl
21	home	home	ADV	_	20 sat	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pretended	punct
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 pretended	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 steps	det
25	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pretended	nsubj
26	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sat	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	30 boat	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 boat	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 boat	det
30	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stick	advcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 father	cc
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stick	nsubj
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 father	case
34	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 stick	amod
35	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pretended	ccomp
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 oar	det
37	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stick	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 row	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	row	would	Ditsch		now		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	row	could	Ditsch				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	row	past · perfect	Ditsch			often property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	sit	past	the step			home property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pretend	past	the steps				tree rules
6	is a	to-infinitive	father not said here	a boat			tree rules
7	stick		father				tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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