The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 29

I am going to fill up all the river, so that the fishes may die.'

Who acts: I, fishes · What happens: go, fill up, die · To what, where: river

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fishes), 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	3 going	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fill	mark
5	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 fill	compound:prt
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 river	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fill	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 die	punct
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	16 die	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 die	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fishes	det
14	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 die	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 die	aux
16	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fill	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	I		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fill up	to-infinitive	I not said here	all river	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent river=Patient
3	die	may	the fishes		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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