Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 3

But one day as the queen was walking by the side of the river, at the bottom of the garden, she saw a poor little fish, that had thrown itself out of the water, and lay gasping and nearly dead on the bank.

Who acts: queen · What happens: walk, see, throw, lay · To what, where: one day, bottom, poor little fish, water, gasping, bank

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	24 saw	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saw	obl:unmarked
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 walking	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walking	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 walking	aux
8	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 day	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 side	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 side	det
11	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walking	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 river	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 side	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bottom	punct
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 bottom	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bottom	det
18	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walking	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 garden	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 garden	det
21	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bottom	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fish	det
26	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fish	amod
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fish	amod
28	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saw	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 thrown	punct
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 thrown	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 thrown	aux
32	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 fish	acl
33	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 thrown	obj
34	out	out	ADP	_	37 water	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 water	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 water	det
37	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 thrown	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 lay	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 lay	cc
40	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 saw	conj
41	gasping	gasping	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lay	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 dead	cc
43	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	44 dead	advmod
44	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 lay	conj
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 bank	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 bank	det
47	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lay	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	the queen	one day not said here	the bottom of the garden		by the side of the river	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent day=Theme by side=Trajectory
2	see	past	queen	a poor little fish		day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus
3	throw	past · perfect · passive		a poor little fish	the water			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination itself=Theme
4	lay	infinitive	queen not said here	gasping	the bank			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gasping=Theme on bank=Destination

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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