The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 102

The first day of the second year the boy had the same work to do as on the previous one--namely, to feed all the wild animals in the troll’s stable.

Who acts: boy, same work · What happens: have, do, feed · To what, where: same work, wild animals, stable

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, same work), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl:unmarked
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 year	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 year	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 year	amod
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 work	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 work	amod
13	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
16	as	as	ADV	_	15 do	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 one	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 one	det
19	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 one	amod
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	obl
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 namely	punct
22	namely	namely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 one	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 feed	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 feed	mark
25	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 do	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 animals	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 animals	det
28	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 animals	amod
29	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 feed	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	34 stable	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 troll	det
32	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stable	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 troll	case
34	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 animals	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the boy	the same work		day		tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the same work not said here				on the previous one	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feed	to-infinitive	the same work not said here	all wild animals	the troll's stable			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Value in stable=Location

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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