The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 27

From that time forth he went out no more to fish; nor, indeed, did he require to do so, for whenever he went down to the shore it never failed that some wreckage was washed up, and in it all kinds of valuable things.

Who acts: Basmus, shore · What happens: go out, require, do, go down, not fail, wash up · To what, where: more, shore, wreckage

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, shore), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	3 time	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	no	no	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 went	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 fish	case
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 more	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 require	punct
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 require	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nor	punct
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	19 require	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 indeed	punct
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 require	aux
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 require	nsubj
19	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 do	mark
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 require	xcomp
22	so	so	ADV	_	21 do	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 went	mark
25	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 went	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 do	conj
28	down	down	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 shore	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 shore	det
31	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 failed	nsubj
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 failed	advmod
34	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 shore	acl:relcl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 washed	mark
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 wreckage	det
37	wreckage	wreckage	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 washed	nsubj:pass
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 washed	aux:pass
39	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 failed	ccomp
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 washed	compound:prt
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 kinds	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 kinds	cc
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 it	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 kinds	nmod
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 kinds	det
46	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 things	case
48	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 things	amod
49	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 kinds	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	Basmus	more	time	all kinds in wreckage of valuable things obl; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	require	past · do-support	Basmus			indeed property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	do	to-infinitive	Basmus not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go down	past	Basmus			to the shore; down, whenever property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	not fail	past	shore	the shore not said here			tree rules
6	wash up	past · passive		some wreckage			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/12/27/