The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 93

One day the man thought that he would pay them a visit, and his wife gave him some dry bread to eat by the way.

Who acts: man, wife · What happens: think, pay, give, eat · To what, where: daughters, dry bread, man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, wife), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 pay	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pay	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 pay	aux
9	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	ccomp
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pay	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 visit	det
12	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pay	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 bread	det
20	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bread	amod
21	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 eat	mark
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 bread	acl
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 way	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 way	det
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eat	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the man			day		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	pay	would	man	daughters = daughter				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient visit=Asset
3	give	past	man's wife	some dry bread	man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bread=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive	man's wife not said here	some dry bread not said here			by the way	vn eat-39.1-1 «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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