The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 6

But my good master Bates died two years after; and as I had few friends my business began to fail, and I determined to go again to sea.

Who acts: good master Bates, I, business · What happens: die, have, begin, fail, determine, go · To what, where: few friends, sea

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good master Bates, I, business), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 died	cc
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 Bates	nmod:poss
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Bates	amod
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Bates	compound
5	Bates	bate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 after	obl:unmarked
9	after	after	ADV	_	6 died	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 had	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 died	conj
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 friends	amod
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 business	nmod:poss
18	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 began	nsubj
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 friends	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 fail	mark
21	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 determined	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 determined	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 determined	nsubj
25	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 died	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 determined	xcomp
28	again	again	ADV	_	27 go	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 sea	case
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	my good master Bates				after property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	have	past	I	few friends				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient
3	begin	past	my business	few friends not said here				tree rules
4	fail	to-infinitive	my business not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	determine	past	I					vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	go	to-infinitive	I not said here		sea	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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