The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 51
He should go out on the lake and fish there that night, and would then be free from all work on the following day.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: go out, be, follow · To what, where: lake, work
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 (Hans), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 lake | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lake | det |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fish | cc |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lake | conj |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 fish | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 free | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 free | cc |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 free | aux |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 free | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 free | cop |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 go | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 work | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 work | det |
| 21 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 free | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 24 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 work | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | should | Hans | the lake and fish | night | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | is | would | Hans not said here | all work on the following day | then | free property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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