The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 14

Every morning early the father cut his sticks, and the sons bound them in bundles, and carried them to the town, bringing back the food the old man so much needed.

Who acts: father, sons · What happens: cut, bound, carry, bring back, need · To what, where: sticks, bundles, sons, town, food

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, sons), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl:unmarked
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 cut	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 father	det
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	nsubj
6	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sticks	nmod:poss
8	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cut	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bound	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bound	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sons	det
12	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bound	nsubj
13	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cut	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bound	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 bundles	case
16	bundles	bundle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bound	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 carried	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 carried	cc
19	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cut	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 carried	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 town	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 town	det
23	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carried	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bringing	punct
25	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 carried	advcl
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 bringing	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 food	det
28	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bringing	obj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bringing	obj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 much	advmod
33	much	much	ADV	_	34 needed	advmod
34	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 bringing	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	the father	father's sticks		morning	early property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Product
2	bound	present	the sons	sticks = stick	bundles			tree rules
3	carry	past	the father not said here	sons = son	the town			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to town=Destination
4	bring back	gerund	the father not said here	the food				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument food=Theme man=Destination
5	need	participle	the father not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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