The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 58

Then they fell to work at once, and when the boats were ready and properly painted, the hare went to the Tanuki, who was still very ill, and invited him to a great fish-catching.

Who acts: man, boats, hare, Tanuki · What happens: fall, work, be, paint, go, invite · To what, where: Tanuki, hare

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, boats, hare, Tanuki), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fell	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 work	mark
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fell	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 work	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ready	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ready	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 ready	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boats	det
12	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ready	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ready	cop
14	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fell	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 painted	cc
16	properly	properly	ADV	_	17 painted	advmod
17	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 ready	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hare	det
20	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 Tanuki	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Tanuki	det
24	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ill	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 ill	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ill	cop
28	still	still	ADV	_	30 ill	advmod
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 ill	advmod
30	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Tanuki	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 invited	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 invited	cc
33	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 invited	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	40 catching	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 catching	det
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 catching	amod
38	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 catching	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 fish	punct
40	catching	catching	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 invited	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	man			then		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	work	to-infinitive	man not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=Theme
3	is	past	the boats				ready property	tree rules
4	paint	participle	the boats not said here				properly property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go	past	the hare		the Tanuki			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tanuki=Initial_Location
6	is	past	the Tanuki			still	ill property	tree rules
7	invite	past	man not said here	hare			to a great fish catching	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/4/58/