The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 21

He was, however, a diligent and hard-working man, and when he had no work in the smithy he was out at sea fishing, or gathering wreckage on the shore.

Who acts: little, sea fishing · What happens: work, be, have, gather · To what, where: diligent man, work, sea fishing, wreckage, shore

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little, sea 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	12 man	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
7	diligent	diligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 working	cc
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 working	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 hard	punct
11	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 diligent	conj
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 had	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	acl:relcl
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 work	det
19	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 smithy	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 smithy	det
22	smithy	smithy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fishing	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fishing	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fishing	cop
25	out	out	ADV	_	28 fishing	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 fishing	case
27	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fishing	compound
28	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gathering	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 gathering	cc
31	gathering	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 fishing	acl
32	wreckage	wreckage	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gathering	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 shore	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 shore	det
35	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gathering	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	work	gerund	little not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	little	a diligent man		however property	tree rules
3	have	past	little	no work			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient
4	is	past	little		sea fishing	in the smithy; out property	tree rules
5	gather	gerund	sea fishing not said here	wreckage	the shore		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wreckage=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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