The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 86

For although it was daylight, old Nukku Matti was sitting on the shores of the ‘Land of Nod,’ and was fishing for little children with his long fishing rod.

Who acts: sleep, old Nukku · What happens: be, sit, fish · To what, where: shores

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 (sleep, old Nukku), 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	For	for	ADP	_	5 daylight	case
2	although	although	SCONJ	_	5 daylight	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 daylight	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 daylight	cop
5	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Nukku	punct
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Nukku	amod
8	Nukku	Nukku	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	nsubj
9	Matti	Matti	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Nukku	flat
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sitting	aux
11	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 shores	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shores	det
14	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sitting	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 Land	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Land	det
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Land	punct
18	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shores	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Nod	case
20	Nod	Nod	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Land	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Nod	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 Nod	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fishing	cc
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fishing	aux
25	fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 sitting	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 children	case
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 children	amod
28	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fishing	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	33 rod	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 rod	nmod:poss
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 rod	amod
32	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rod	compound
33	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fishing	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	sleep		for daylight	tree rules
2	sit	past · progressive	old Nukku	the shores of the Land of Nod		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location
3	fish	past · progressive	old Nukku not said here		for little children; with Lasse's long fishing rod	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for child=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 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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