The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 2
One day he was out fishing, but caught nothing at all.
Who acts: One day, fishing · What happens: be, catch · To what, where: fishing, nothing, all
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day, fishing), 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 | 6 fishing | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fishing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fishing | cop |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 was | compound:prt |
| 6 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 caught | cc |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fishing | acl:relcl |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 caught | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 caught | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fishing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | One day | fishing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | fishing not said here | nothing | all | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme at all=Asset |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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