More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 65

One consulted with the other, and agreed that such fish should be cast into their pond (which was in the middle of the town), that they might breed against the next year, and every man that had salt fish left cast them into the pool.

Who acts: pond, fish, man · What happens: consult, agree, cast, be, breed, have · To what, where: One, such fish, pond, middle, salt fish, fish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pond, fish, man), 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 consulted	nsubj:pass
2	consulted	consult	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 other	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 other	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 consulted	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 agreed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 agreed	cc
8	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 consulted	parataxis
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 cast	mark
10	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fish	amod
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cast	nsubj:pass
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 cast	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 cast	aux:pass
14	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 agreed	ccomp
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 pond	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 pond	nmod:poss
17	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cast	obl
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 middle	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 middle	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 middle	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 middle	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 middle	det
23	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pond	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 town	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 town	det
26	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 middle	nmod
27	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 middle	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 breed	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 breed	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 breed	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 breed	aux
32	breed	breed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cast	conj
33	against	against	ADP	_	36 year	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 year	det
35	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 year	amod
36	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 breed	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 cast	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 cast	cc
39	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	40 man	det
40	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 cast	nsubj
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 man	acl:relcl
43	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 fish	compound
44	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 had	obj
45	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 fish	acl
46	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 consulted	conj
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 cast	obj
48	into	into	ADP	_	50 pool	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 pool	det
50	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 cast	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 consulted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consult	participle · passive		One			with the other	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	agree speech: agree	past						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cast	should · passive		such fish	fish's pond			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into pond=Product
4	is	past	fish's pond		the middle		of the town	tree rules
5	breed	might	fish			year		tree rules
6	have	past	every man	salt fish				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
7	leave	participle		salt fish not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	cast	present	every man	fish	the pool			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into pool=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: «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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