The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 127
At last the young man gave in, and threw the fish back into the sea; and both brothers went supperless to bed, and wondered what fortune the next day would bring.
Who acts: brothers, next day · What happens: give in, throw back, go, wonder, bring · To what, where: fish, sea, bed, fortune · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (brothers, next day), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 man | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 gave | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 threw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 threw | cc |
| 10 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fish | det |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 threw | advmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 19 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 brothers | det |
| 20 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 22 | supperless | supperless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 went | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wondered | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wondered | cc |
| 27 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 28 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 29 fortune | det |
| 29 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wondered | obj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 day | det |
| 31 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 day | amod |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bring | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 bring | aux |
| 34 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wondered | ccomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in | past | at the last young man | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | throw back | past | the fish | into the sea result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer fish=Theme into sea=Result | ||||
| 3 | go | past | both brothers | bed | supperless property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | past | what fortune | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bring | would | the next day | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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