The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 28

The father did not know what to think, and told one of his friends, who said, ‘To-morrow we had better keep watch ourselves.’

Who acts: father, we, better keep · What happens: not know, think, tell, say, have, watch · To what, where: one, better keep, ourselves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, we, better keep), 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	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 think	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 think	mark
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 know	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	parataxis
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 told	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 friends	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 friends	nmod:poss
15	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
21	To	to	ADP	_	23 morrow	case
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 To	punct
23	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obl
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
26	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 keep	amod
27	keep	keep	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	xcomp
29	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 watch	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	the father			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past		one of father's friends		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have	past	we	better keep	to morrow	tree rules
6	watch	infinitive	better keep not said here	ourselves		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme

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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