The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 36

The fish swam as fast as he could to the sea, which was not far distant, and calling together all his relations who lived in the neighbourhood, he told them of the terrible danger which threatened the dwellers in the river.

Who acts: fish, sea, relations, falcon, terrible danger · What happens: swim, not be, call together, live, tell, threaten · To what, where: relations, neighbourhood, dwellers, river · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fish, sea, relations, falcon), 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 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swam	nsubj
3	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 swam	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 could	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 could	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fast	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 could	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 distant	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 distant	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 distant	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 distant	advmod
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 distant	advmod
17	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sea	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 calling	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 calling	cc
20	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 swam	advcl
21	together	together	ADV	_	20 calling	advmod
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 relations	det:predet
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 relations	nmod:poss
24	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 calling	obj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 lived	nsubj
26	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 relations	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 neighbourhood	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 neighbourhood	det
29	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lived	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 told	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 told	nsubj
32	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swam	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 told	iobj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 danger	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 danger	det
36	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 danger	amod
37	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 told	obl
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 threatened	nsubj
39	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 danger	acl:relcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 dwellers	det
41	dwellers	dweller	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 threatened	obj
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 river	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 river	det
44	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 threatened	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim	past	the fish				fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	past	the sea				distant, far property	tree rules
3	call together speech: assert	gerund	the fish not said here	falcon's relations			together property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent relation=Recipient
4	live	past	falcon's relations			the neighbourhood		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in neighbourhood=Location
5	tell speech: assert	past	falcon		relations = relation		of the terrible danger	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	threaten	past	the terrible danger	the dwellers		the river		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dweller=Experiencer

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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