The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 19

Next morning they were to clean the well, and they would use of that opportunity.

Who acts: men · What happens: clean, use · To what, where: well

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 (men), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clean	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 clean	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 clean	aux
5	to	to	PART	_	6 clean	mark
6	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 well	det
8	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clean	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 use	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 use	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 use	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 use	aux
13	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 clean	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 opportunity	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 opportunity	det
16	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 use	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 clean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	past	men = man	the well			morning		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent well=Patient
2	use	would	men = man					of that opportunity	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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