The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 30

'The young flies will be coming out now,' murmured a third, 'and they will all be eaten up by the river fish!

Who acts: young flies, river fish · What happens: come out, murmur, eat up · To what, where: third, flies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young flies, river 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	_	7 coming	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flies	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flies	amod
4	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 coming	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 coming	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 coming	aux
7	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 murmured	ccomp
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 coming	advmod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 coming	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 coming	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 coming	punct
12	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 third	det
14	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 murmured	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 murmured	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 murmured	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 eaten	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eaten	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 eaten	aux
20	all	all	ADV	_	22 eaten	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 eaten	aux:pass
22	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 murmured	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 eaten	compound:prt
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 fish	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fish	det
26	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fish	compound
27	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eaten	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 murmured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come out	future · progressive	the young flies		now	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	murmur speech: other	past		a third			tree rules
3	eat up	future · passive	the river fish	flies = fly		all property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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