The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 37

'None of us has got it,' said the fishes, shaking their heads; 'but in the bay yonder there is a tunny who, although he is so old, always goes everywhere.

Who acts: None, tunny · What happens: get, say, shake, be, go · To what, where: fish, fishes, heads, tunny, bay · 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 (None, tunny), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
2	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	6 got	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 us	case
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 None	nmod
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 got	aux
6	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fishes	det
12	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shaking	punct
14	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heads	nmod:poss
16	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shaking	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 tunny	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 bay	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bay	det
22	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tunny	obl
23	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	25 is	advmod
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 is	expl
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 tunny	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tunny	det
27	tunny	tunny	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	conj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 old	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 old	punct
30	although	although	SCONJ	_	34 old	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 old	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 old	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 old	advmod
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tunny	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 goes	punct
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	37 goes	advmod
37	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 old	conj
38	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	37 goes	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	present · perfect	None	fish			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	None not said here	the fishes			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fish=Topic
3	shake	gerund	None not said here	relations's heads			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	is a	present	None not said here	a tunny	the bay		tree rules
5	is	present	a tunny			old property	tree rules
6	go	present	a tunny not said here			always, everywhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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