The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 17
One day the fisherman went out fishing, and among his catch for the day he brought home three dozen oysters.
Who acts: fisherman · What happens: go out, bring · To what, where: fishing, dozen oysters
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fisherman | det |
| 4 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 went | compound:prt |
| 7 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 catch | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 catch | cc |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 catch | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 catch | nmod:poss |
| 12 | catch | catch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 catch | nmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 day | acl:relcl |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 dozen | advmod |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 dozen | compound |
| 20 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 oysters | nummod |
| 21 | oysters | oyster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 brought | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the fisherman | fishing | day | among fisherman's catch for the day | tree rules | ||
| 2 | bring | past | fisherman | dozen oysters | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent oyster=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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