The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 129

So the captain brought the dog back, and the following morning handed him over to another of the band, just saying that the animal really could do what the shoemaker had said.

Who acts: captain, following morning, animal · What happens: bring back, follow, hand over, say, do · To what, where: dog, another, shoemaker · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, following morning, animal), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 brought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 captain	det
3	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	nsubj
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 brought	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 handed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 handed	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 morning	det
11	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 morning	amod
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 handed	nsubj
13	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 handed	obj
15	over	over	ADP	_	13 handed	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 another	case
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 handed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 band	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 band	det
20	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 another	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saying	punct
22	just	just	ADV	_	23 saying	advmod
23	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 handed	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 do	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 animal	det
26	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 do	nsubj
27	really	really	ADV	_	29 do	advmod
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 do	aux
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 saying	ccomp
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 said	obj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 shoemaker	det
32	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 said	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 said	aux
34	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 do	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	bring back	past	the captain		the dog		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination
2	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hand over	past	the following morning	dog		another	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to another=Destination
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the following morning not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do	could	the animal				tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the shoemaker			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner

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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