More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 99

I shot at them; some say I killed eighteen; but I am sure I killed thirty-six, besides a dead salmon which was flying over the bridge, of which I made the best apple-pie I ever tasted.

Who acts: I, some, dead salmon · What happens: shoot, say, kill, be, beside, fly · To what, where: eighteen, thirty, dead salmon, bridge, best apple pie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (I, some, dead salmon), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 shot	nsubj
2	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shot	obl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shot	parataxis
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 killed	nsubj
9	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
10	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 killed	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 sure	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 sure	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sure	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sure	cop
15	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shot	parataxis
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 killed	nsubj
17	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sure	ccomp
18	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 killed	obj
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 thirty	punct
20	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 thirty	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 besides	punct
22	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sure	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 salmon	det
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 salmon	amod
25	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 besides	obj
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 flying	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 flying	aux
28	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 salmon	acl:relcl
29	over	over	ADP	_	31 bridge	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bridge	det
31	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flying	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 made	punct
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 made	obl
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 made	nsubj
36	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 flying	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 pie	det
38	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 pie	amod
39	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 pie	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 apple	punct
41	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 made	obj
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 tasted	nsubj
43	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	44 tasted	advmod
44	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 pie	acl:relcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	I				at partridges = partridge	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at they=Destination
2	say speech: assert	present	some					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	kill	past	I	eighteen				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eighteen=Theme
4	is	present	I				sure property	tree rules
5	kill	past	I	thirty				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thirty=Theme
6	beside	present	I not said here	a dead salmon				tree rules
7	fly	past · progressive	a dead salmon		the bridge			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Location
8	make	past	I	the best apple pie				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pie=Product
9	taste	past	I	the best apple pie not said here		ever		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme pie=Attribute

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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