The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 23
On the third day, however, Basmus came to shore again and had his boat full of fish, so big and fat that no one had ever seen their like.
Who acts: Basmus, one · What happens: come, have, see · To what, where: shore, boat
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 (Basmus, one), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | Basmus | Basmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 shore | case |
| 11 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 boat | nmod:poss |
| 16 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boat | amod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fish | case |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 full | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 big | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 big | advmod |
| 22 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 came | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fat | cc |
| 24 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 big | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 seen | mark |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 one | det |
| 27 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 seen | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 seen | aux |
| 29 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 seen | advmod |
| 30 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 big | advcl |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 like | nmod:poss |
| 32 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 30 seen | discourse |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Basmus | shore | again; day | however property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | have | past | Basmus not said here | Basmus's boat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | no one | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «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 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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