The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 64

He ran in again to his wife, for he could never devise anything himself, and said to her, ‘What shall we do with him now?

Who acts: fish, we · What happens: run in, not devise, say, do · To what, where: anything, yard · 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 (fish, we), 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	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 wife	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 devise	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 devise	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 devise	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 devise	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 devise	advmod
13	devise	devise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ran	conj
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 devise	obj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 anything	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 do	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 do	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 do	obj
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 do	aux
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 do	nsubj
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 do	obl
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 do	advmod
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	run in	past	fish			again	to fish's wife result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wife=Result
2	not devise	could	fish	anything				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past			yard			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	do	shall	we			now	with fish	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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