The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 112
One day they had been out in their boat since sunrise without a single bite, and were just thinking of putting up their lines and going home to bed when they felt a little feeble tug, and, drawing in hastily, they found a tiny fish at the end of the hook.
Who acts: joy · What happens: be, think, put up, go, feel, draw · To what, where: boat, lines, bed, little feeble tug, tiny fish, end
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy), 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 | 9 boat | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 boat | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 boat | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 boat | cop |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 been | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 boat | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 boat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | since | since | ADP | _ | 11 sunrise | case |
| 11 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boat | nmod |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 bite | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bite | det |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bite | amod |
| 15 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sunrise | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thinking | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thinking | cc |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 thinking | aux |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 thinking | advmod |
| 20 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 boat | conj |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 putting | mark |
| 22 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 thinking | advcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 putting | compound:prt |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lines | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 putting | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 going | cc |
| 27 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 putting | conj |
| 28 | home | home | ADV | _ | 27 going | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 bed | case |
| 30 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 going | obl |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 felt | advmod |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 felt | nsubj |
| 33 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 going | advcl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 tug | det |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 tug | amod |
| 36 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 tug | amod |
| 37 | tug | tug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 felt | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 drawing | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 drawing | cc |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 drawing | punct |
| 41 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 thinking | parataxis |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 hastily | case |
| 43 | hastily | hastily | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 41 drawing | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 found | punct |
| 45 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 found | nsubj |
| 46 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 drawing | conj |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 fish | det |
| 48 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 fish | amod |
| 49 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 found | obj |
| 50 | at | at | ADP | _ | 52 end | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 end | det |
| 52 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 found | obl |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 hook | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 hook | det |
| 55 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 end | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 boat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | joy | joy's boat | day; sunrise | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past · progressive | joy not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | put up | gerund | joy not said here | joy's lines | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent line=Goal | ||||
| 4 | go | gerund | joy not said here | bed | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | feel | past | joy | a little feeble tug | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tug=Theme | ||||
| 6 | draw | gerund | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hastily=Destination | ||||||
| 7 | find | past | joy | a tiny fish | at the end of the hook | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent fish=Theme at end=Asset |
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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