The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 61

This time the journey to land seemed much shorter than before, and when once the fish reached the shore she struck her forehead sharply with her tail, and cried:

Who acts: journey, fish · What happens: seem, reach, strike, cry · To what, where: shore, forehead

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 (journey, 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seemed	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 journey	det
4	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seemed	nsubj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 land	case
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 journey	nmod
7	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 shorter	advmod
9	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 seemed	xcomp
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 before	case
11	before	before	ADV	_	9 shorter	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 struck	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 struck	cc
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 reached	mark
15	once	once	SCONJ	_	18 reached	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fish	det
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reached	nsubj
18	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 struck	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shore	det
20	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reached	obj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 struck	nsubj
22	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seemed	conj
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 forehead	nmod:poss
24	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 struck	obj
25	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	22 struck	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 tail	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 tail	nmod:poss
28	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 struck	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cried	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cried	cc
31	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seemed	parataxis
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the journey to land		time	short property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	reach	past	the fish	the shore			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme
3	strike	past	journey	journey's forehead		with journey's tail; sharply property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent forehead=Patient with tail=Instrument
4	cry speech: express	past					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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