The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 61

Now Uraschimataro was very good-natured, and besides, he could never bear to say no, so he picked up the turtle, and put it back into the sea.

Who acts: Uraschimataro, couple · What happens: be, not bear, say, pick up, put back · To what, where: turtle, gratitude, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Uraschimataro, couple), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 natured	advmod
2	Uraschimataro	Uraschimataro	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 natured	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 natured	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	7 natured	advmod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 natured	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
7	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bear	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bear	cc
10	besides	besides	INTJ	_	15 bear	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 besides	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bear	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 bear	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 bear	advmod
15	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 natured	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 say	mark
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 bear	conj
18	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	17 say	discourse
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 picked	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 picked	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 picked	nsubj
22	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 natured	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 picked	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 turtle	det
25	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 picked	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 put	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 put	cc
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 picked	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	back	back	ADV	_	28 put	advmod
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 sea	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sea	det
33	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 natured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Uraschimataro			now	natured property	tree rules
2	not bear	could	couple					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	couple not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	pick up	past	couple	the turtle				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turtle=Topic
5	put back	infinitive	couple not said here	gratitude	the sea			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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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