The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 39

'It is beautiful indeed,' gasped the little fish, who was very tired with trying to swim as fast as the rest, and beautiful beyond words the palace was.

Who acts: palace, little fish · What happens: be, gasp, try, swim · To what, where: little fish

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 (palace, 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 beautiful	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beautiful	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 beautiful	cop
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 beautiful	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gasped	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 gasped	punct
8	gasped	gasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beautiful	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fish	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fish	amod
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gasped	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tired	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 tired	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tired	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 tired	advmod
16	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fish	amod
17	with	with	SCONJ	_	18 trying	mark
18	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 tired	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 swim	mark
20	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 trying	xcomp
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 fast	advmod
22	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 swim	advmod
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 rest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rest	det
25	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fast	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 beautiful	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 beautiful	cc
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beautiful	conj
29	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	30 words	case
30	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 beautiful	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 palace	det
32	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 was	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 words	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	palace		beautiful, indeed property	tree rules
2	gasp	past	palace not said here	the little fish		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic
3	is	past	the little fish		tired property	tree rules
4	try	gerund	the little fish not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	swim not said to happen	to-infinitive	the little fish not said here		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	be		palace not said here		beyond words	tree rules

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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