The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 36

At first our little fish felt as if she were blind also, but by-and-by she began to make out one object after another in the green dimness, and by the time she had swum for a few hours all became clear.

Who acts: little fish, creature · What happens: feel, be, begin, make out, swim, become · To what, where: one object, green dimness

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 (little fish, creature), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 felt	obl
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fish	nmod:poss
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fish	amod
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	nsubj
6	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 blind	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 blind	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 blind	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 blind	cop
11	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 felt	advcl
12	also	also	ADV	_	11 blind	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
15	by	by	SCONJ	_	21 began	mark
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 by	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 by	cc
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 by	punct
19	by	by	ADP	_	15 by	fixed
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 felt	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 make	compound:prt
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 object	nummod
26	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
27	after	after	ADP	_	28 another	case
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 make	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 dimness	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dimness	det
31	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dimness	amod
32	dimness	dimness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 swum	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 swum	cc
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 time	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 time	det
37	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 swum	obl
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 swum	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 swum	aux
40	swum	swim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 began	conj
41	for	for	ADP	_	44 hours	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 hours	det
43	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 hours	amod
44	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 swum	obl
45	all	all	ADV	_	46 became	advmod
46	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 swum	advcl
47	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 became	xcomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	participle	our little fish					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at first=Location
2	is	past	creature				blind property	tree rules
3	begin	past	creature					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	make out	to-infinitive	creature not said here	one object	the green dimness	after another		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer object=Stimulus
5	swim	past · perfect	creature			hour; time		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	become	past	creature not said here				all, clear property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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