The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 39
So the little fish swam off to the tunny, and again related his story.
Who acts: little fish · What happens: swim off, relate · To what, where: tunny, story
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 swam | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fish | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fish | amod |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swam | nsubj |
| 5 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 swam | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tunny | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tunny | det |
| 9 | tunny | tunny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swam | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 related | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 related | cc |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 related | advmod |
| 13 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swam | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 story | nmod:poss |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 related | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim off | past | the little fish | the tunny | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tunny=Destination | ||||
| 2 | relate | past | the little fish not said here | falcon's story | again | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=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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