The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 48

The squire can send him this evening to fish in Devilmoss Lake: he will never escape alive from there, for no one can go there by night for Old Eric.’

Who acts: squire, steward, one · What happens: send, not escape, go · To what, where: steward, fish

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 (squire, steward, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 squire	det
2	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 send	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 send	aux
4	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 send	obj
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 evening	det
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 send	obl:unmarked
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 fish	case
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 send	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 Lake	case
11	Devilmoss	Devilmoss	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Lake	compound
12	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fish	nmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 escape	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 escape	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 escape	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 escape	advmod
17	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 send	parataxis
18	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 escape	xcomp
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 there	case
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 escape	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 go	mark
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 escape	conj
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 go	advmod
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 night	case
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 Eric	case
31	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Eric	amod
32	Eric	Eric	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 send	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	can	the squire	steward	fish in Devilmoss Lake		evening		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to fish=Destination
2	not escape	future	steward					alive property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from there=Initial_Location
3	go	can	no one			there	night	for Old Eric	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for eric=Beneficiary

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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