The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 38

I am so annoyed that our watchdog is dead, for in the evening the young fellows will come about to get fun with the girls, and they will get nothing done.

Who acts: I, watchdog, young fellows, fellows, nothing · What happens: be, come about, get, do · To what, where: fun, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, watchdog, young fellows, fellows), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 annoyed	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 annoyed	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 annoyed	advmod
4	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 dead	mark
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 watchdog	nmod:poss
7	watchdog	watchdog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dead	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dead	cop
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 annoyed	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 come	mark
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 evening	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 evening	det
14	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fellows	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fellows	amod
17	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 annoyed	conj
20	about	about	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 get	mark
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	advcl
23	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 get	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 girls	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 girls	det
26	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 get	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 get	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 get	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 get	aux
31	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 annoyed	conj
32	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	31 get	obj
33	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 get	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 annoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			annoyed property	tree rules
2	is	present	our watchdog			dead property	tree rules
3	come about	future	the young fellows		evening	about property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get	to-infinitive	the young fellows not said here	fun		with the girls	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fun=Stimulus
5	get	future	fellows = fellow	nothing			tree rules
6	do	participle	nothing 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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