The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 58

He was thinking of his mother and how poor they were since his father, who was a fisherman, had been drowned at sea, and wondering what he should do to earn a living for both of them.

Who acts: horse, father · What happens: think, be, drown, wonder, do, earn · To what, where: fisherman, men, sea, living

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thinking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinking	aux
3	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 mother	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinking	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 poor	cc
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 poor	advmod
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	conj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 drowned	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 drowned	aux:pass
12	since	since	SCONJ	_	23 drowned	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drowned	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fisherman	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 fisherman	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fisherman	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fisherman	det
19	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 father	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 father	punct
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 drowned	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 drowned	aux:pass
23	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 mother	acl:relcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 sea	case
25	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drowned	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wondering	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wondering	cc
28	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thinking	conj
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 do	obj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 do	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 do	aux
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wondering	xcomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 earn	mark
34	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 do	advcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 living	det
36	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 earn	obj
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 both	case
38	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	34 earn	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 both	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	horse			of horse's mother	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	horse's father and a fisherman	a fisherman			tree rules
3	drown	past · perfect · passive		men = man	sea		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	wonder speech: ask	gerund	horse not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	should	horse				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	earn	to-infinitive	horse not said here	a living		for both	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent living=Theme for both=Source

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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