The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 23

'I am not a fish at all,' said the new-comer, swallowing a great deal of salt water as she spoke; for you cannot learn how to be a proper fish all in a moment. '

Who acts: I, power, you · What happens: not be, say, swallow, speak, not learn, be · To what, where: fish, all, new comer, great deal, proper fish, salt water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, power, you), 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 fish	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 fish	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fish	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fish	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 fish	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fish	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 fish	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 comer	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 comer	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 new	punct
15	comer	comer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 swallowing	punct
17	swallowing	swallow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 deal	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 deal	amod
20	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swallowing	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 water	case
22	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 water	compound
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 deal	nmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 spoke	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 spoke	nsubj
26	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 swallowing	advcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 learn	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 learn	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 learn	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 learn	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 learn	advmod
32	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	parataxis
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 learn	ccomp
34	to	to	PART	_	38 fish	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 fish	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 fish	det
37	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 fish	amod
38	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 how	nsubj
39	all	all	ADV	_	42 moment	advmod
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 moment	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 moment	det
42	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 how	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 learn	punct
44	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 learn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not is a	present	I	a fish	all	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the new comer		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent comer=Topic
3	swallow	gerund		a great deal of salt water		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient
4	speak speech: other	past	power			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not learn	can	you			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	to-infinitive		a proper fish		tree rules
7	deal			salt water		nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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