The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 28
All good things go in threes, so Matte and his wife fished for salmon in spring, for herring in summer, and for cod in winter.
Who acts: good things, Matte · What happens: go, fish · To what, where: threes
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good things, Matte), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 things | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 things | amod |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 threes | case |
| 6 | threes | three | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fished | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 fished | advmod |
| 9 | Matte | Matte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fished | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wife | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Matte | conj |
| 13 | fished | fish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 salmon | case |
| 15 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fished | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 spring | case |
| 17 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fished | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 herring | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 herring | case |
| 20 | herring | herring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fished | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 summer | case |
| 22 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 herring | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cod | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 cod | cc |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 cod | case |
| 26 | cod | cod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | parataxis |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 winter | case |
| 28 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cod | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | all good things | threes | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in three=Location | ||||
| 2 | fish | past | Matte and rock's wife | spring | for salmon; for herring in summer | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for salmon=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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