The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 71
Early one morning the emperor’s fishermen went down to the river to get some fish for their master’s breakfast, and cast their nets into the stream.
Who acts: fishermen · What happens: go down, get, cast · To what, where: fish, nets, stream
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishermen), 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 | Early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 morning | nummod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 emperor | det |
| 5 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fishermen | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 emperor | case |
| 7 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | advcl |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 fish | det |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 breakfast | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 master | nmod:poss |
| 19 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 master | case |
| 21 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cast | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cast | cc |
| 24 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 nets | nmod:poss |
| 26 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 cast | obj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 stream | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 stream | det |
| 29 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cast | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | the emperor's fishermen | morning | to the river; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | the emperor's fishermen not said here | some fish | for fishes's master's breakfast | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fish=Theme for breakfast=Source | |||
| 3 | cast | past | the emperor's fishermen not said here | fishes's nets | the stream | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent net=Material into stream=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 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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