The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 35
On and on came the fish, holding the crown tightly in her mouth, and the others moved back to let her pass.
Who acts: fish, others · What happens: come, hold, move back, let, pass · To what, where: crown, mouth, Fish
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 (fish, others), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 on | cc |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 On | conj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 holding | punct |
| 8 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 crown | det |
| 10 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holding | obj |
| 11 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 14 mouth | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 mouth | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holding | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 moved | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 moved | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 others | det |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 moved | nsubj |
| 19 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 moved | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 let | mark |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 moved | advcl |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 let | obj |
| 24 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the fish | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | the fish not said here | the crown | Fish's mouth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent crown=Theme in mouth=Location | |||
| 3 | move back | past | the others | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | let | to-infinitive | the others not said here | Fish | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pass | infinitive | Fish not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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