The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 38
The man took to his fishing again, and one day fate brought the gold fish into his net for the third time.
Who acts: man, day fate, husband · What happens: take, bring, fish · To what, where: gold fish, net
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, day fate, husband), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 fishing | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fishing | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brought | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 day | nummod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fate | compound |
| 12 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | nsubj |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fish | det |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fish | compound |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 net | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 net | nmod:poss |
| 19 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 22 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the man | again | to husband's fishing result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fishing=Result | |||
| 2 | bring | past | day fate | the gold fish | husband's net | time | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fish=Destination | ||
| 3 | fish | husband | nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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