The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 71
One day the whole fish tribe came back very tired from a hunting expedition, and looked about for a nice, cool spot in which to pitch their camp.
Who acts: whole fish tribe · What happens: come back, look, pitch · To what, where: camp, nice cool spot
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole fish tribe), 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 | 7 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tribe | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tribe | amod |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tribe | compound |
| 6 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 tired | advmod |
| 10 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 came | xcomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 expedition | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 expedition | det |
| 13 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 expedition | compound |
| 14 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tired | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 looked | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 spot | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 spot | det |
| 21 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 spot | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 nice | punct |
| 23 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 spot | amod |
| 24 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 pitch | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 pitch | mark |
| 28 | pitch | pitch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 spot | acl:relcl |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 camp | nmod:poss |
| 30 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pitch | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the whole fish tribe | day | tired property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | past | the whole fish tribe not said here | for a nice cool spot; about property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for spot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pitch | to-infinitive | the whole fish tribe not said here | fishes's camp | a nice cool spot | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent camp=Theme in which=Destination |
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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