The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 85

Next day the lad had to begin his service.

Who acts: lad · What happens: have, begin, service · To what, where: service

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 (lad), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lad	det
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 begin	mark
7	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 service	nmod:poss
9	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 begin	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	the lad		day	tree rules
2	begin	to-infinitive	the lad not said here	lad's service		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality
3	service		lad			nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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