The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 4

Every morning he used to go out fishing, and whatever fish he caught he sold to the King.

Who acts: fisherman, whatever · What happens: use, go out, fish, catch, sell · To what, where: fishing, fish, King

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, whatever), 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	4 used	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 go	compound:prt
8	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sold	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sold	cc
11	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fish	nsubj
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sold	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 caught	nsubj
14	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fish	acl:relcl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sold	nsubj
16	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 used	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 King	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 King	det
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 sold	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	use	past	fisherman			morning	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	go out	to-infinitive	fisherman not said here	fishing			tree rules
3	fish		whatever				tree rules
4	catch	past	fisherman	fish not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
5	sell	past	fisherman		the King		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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