The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 104

To him also he said, ‘Farewell;’ he was now tired of living on shore among mortal men, and preferred to go home again to his mother.

Who acts: half · What happens: say, be, live, prefer, go · To what, where: half, shore · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:1450): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 him	case
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	obl
3	also	also	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Farewell	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 Farewell	punct
8	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	5 said	ccomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 Farewell	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 Farewell	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tired	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tired	cop
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 tired	advmod
14	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 living	mark
16	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 tired	advcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 shore	case
18	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 living	obl
19	among	among	ADP	_	21 men	case
20	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 men	amod
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 living	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 preferred	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 preferred	cc
24	preferred	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tired	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 go	mark
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 preferred	xcomp
27	home	home	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	again	again	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 mother	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mother	nmod:poss
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	half	half				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	is	past	half			now	tired property	tree rules
3	live	gerund	half not said here		shore		among mortal men	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location
4	prefer	past	half not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	half not said here			again	to half's mother; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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