The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 57

Long did the old man and the hare puzzle together how this was to be done, and at last they decided that they would make two boats, a small one of wood and a large one of clay.

Who acts: man · What happens: do, decide, make · To what, where: old man, this, last, two boats · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 puzzle	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 puzzle	det
8	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 puzzle	compound
9	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	conj
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 puzzle	advmod
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 done	advmod
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 done	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux:pass
14	to	to	PART	_	16 done	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 done	aux:pass
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 decided	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 decided	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 decided	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 decided	nsubj
22	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 make	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 make	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 decided	ccomp
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 boats	nummod
28	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 make	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 one	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 one	det
31	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 one	amod
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 boats	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 wood	case
34	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 one	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 one	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 one	det
37	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 one	amod
38	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 one	conj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 clay	case
40	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 one	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past		the old man and the hare puzzle		long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	do	past · passive		this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	decide	past	man		last		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	would	man	two boats			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boat=Product

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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