The Aesop for Children, The Fisherman and the Little Fish, sentence 2

The Fisherman was about to put it in his basket when the little Fish said:

Who acts: Fisherman, little Fish · What happens: be, put, say · To what, where: luck, basket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fisherman and the Little Fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fisherman, little Fish), 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 Fisherman	det
2	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 about	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 about	cop
4	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 put	mark
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 about	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 basket	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 basket	nmod:poss
10	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 said	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Fish	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Fish	amod
14	Fish	Fish	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 about	parataxis
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Fisherman			about property	tree rules
2	put	to-infinitive	the Fisherman not said here	luck	Fisherman's basket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in basket=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	the little Fish				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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