The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 39

They became fast friends, and told each other about their homes and their children, and how to teach them all they ought to know.

Who acts: sharks · What happens: become, tell, teach, know · To what, where: fast friends, each, sharks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sharks), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friends	amod
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 became	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	parataxis
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	7 told	obj
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 homes	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 homes	nmod:poss
12	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 children	cc
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 children	nmod:poss
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 homes	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 teach	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 teach	cc
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 teach	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 teach	mark
20	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 teach	obj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 them	nmod:unmarked
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ought	nsubj
24	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 teach	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 know	mark
26	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ought	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	sharks = shark	fast friends			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past		each		about sharks's homes and sharks's children	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent each=Recipient about home=Topic
3	teach speech: other	to-infinitive			sharks = shark		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	know	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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