The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 71

And it was a good thing that he did go back, for the tub had nearly worn out the tongue.

Who acts: jam, student · What happens: be, go back, wear out · To what, where: good thing, tub

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jam, student), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 thing	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 go	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	acl
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 worn	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 worn	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tub	det
15	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 worn	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 worn	aux
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 worn	advmod
18	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 go	advcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 worn	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tongue	det
21	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 worn	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	jam	a good thing		tree rules
2	go back	past · do-support	student	a good thing not said here		tree rules
3	wear out	past · perfect · passive		the tub	nearly property	tree rules

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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