The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 68

At last came an old, old pike, which he had great difficulty in bringing home to him.

Who acts: old old pike, pike, great difficulty · What happens: come, have, bring · To what, where: last, old old pike, pike

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 (old old pike, pike, great difficulty), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	obl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pike	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pike	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pike	amod
8	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 had	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pike	acl:relcl
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 difficulty	amod
14	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	in	in	SCONJ	_	16 bringing	mark
16	bringing	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 difficulty	acl
17	home	home	ADV	_	16 bringing	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bringing	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	a old old pike			last		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	have	past	pike	a old old pike				tree rules
3	bring	gerund	great difficulty not said here		pike		home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=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 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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