The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 53

This son’s name was Uraschimataro, which means in Japanese, ‘Son of the island,’ and he was a fine well-grown youth and a good fisherman, minding neither wind nor weather.

Who acts: name, Uraschimataro, son · What happens: be, mean, grow, mind, name · To what, where: Uraschimataro, fine grown youth, wind

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Uraschimataro, son), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 name	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 son	case
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Uraschimataro	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Uraschimataro	cop
6	Uraschimataro	Uraschimataro	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 means	nsubj
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Uraschimataro	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Japanese	case
11	Japanese	Japanese	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 means	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Son	punct
13	‘	‘	ADP	_	14 Son	case
14	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Japanese	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 island	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 island	det
17	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Son	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 island	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 Son	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 youth	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 youth	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 youth	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 youth	det
24	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 youth	amod
25	well	well	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 grown	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 well	punct
27	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 youth	amod
28	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Japanese	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fisherman	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 fisherman	det
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fisherman	amod
32	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 youth	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 minding	punct
34	minding	mind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 means	conj
35	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	36 wind	det
36	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 minding	obj
37	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	38 weather	cc
38	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wind	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Uraschimataro	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this son's name	Uraschimataro		tree rules
2	mean	present	Uraschimataro		in Japanese and a fine grown youth and a good fisherman	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in japanese=Attribute
3	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past	son	a fine grown youth and a good fisherman		tree rules
5	mind	gerund	Uraschimataro not said here	neither wind nor weather		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme
6	name		this son			nom name «communication 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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