The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 146
They then rowed home again, and had a good meal off the fish.
Who acts: trough · What happens: row, have · To what, where: good meal
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trough), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rowed | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rowed | advmod |
| 3 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 rowed | advmod |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 rowed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rowed | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 meal | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 meal | amod |
| 11 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 fish | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fish | det |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row | past | trough | then; again | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | have | past | trough not said here | a good meal | off the fish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
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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