The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 90
They were a pair of reckless fellows, who always had something foolish to do.
Who acts: sons, pair, something · What happens: be, have, do · To what, where: pair, something
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, pair, something), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pair | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pair | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pair | det |
| 4 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fellows | case |
| 6 | reckless | reckless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fellows | amod |
| 7 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pair | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 had | nsubj |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 had | advmod |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pair | conj |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 had | obj |
| 13 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 something | amod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 foolish | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sons = son | a pair | of reckless fellows | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | a pair | something | always property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | |||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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