The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 14
In the pool of Corri- Bui swims a salmon with a skin that shines like silver, and whose gills are red--bring them all to me, and then you shall know where dwell your brothers and your sister!'
Who acts: pool, skin, gills, you · What happens: swim, shine, be, bring, know, dwell · To what, where: salmon, gills, me, brothers
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pool, skin, gills, you), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 pool | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pool | det |
| 3 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swims | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Corri | case |
| 5 | Corri | Corri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pool | nmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Corri | punct |
| 7 | Bui | Bui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Corri | flat |
| 8 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 salmon | det |
| 10 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swims | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 skin | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 skin | det |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 salmon | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 shines | nsubj |
| 15 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 skin | acl:relcl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 silver | case |
| 17 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shines | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 red | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 red | cc |
| 20 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 21 gills | nmod:poss |
| 21 | gills | gill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 red | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 red | cop |
| 23 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 swims | conj |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 bring | punct |
| 25 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 red | parataxis |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bring | obj |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 bring | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 know | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 know | cc |
| 32 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 know | advmod |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 know | nsubj |
| 34 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 know | aux |
| 35 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 swims | parataxis |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 dwell | advmod |
| 37 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 know | xcomp |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 39 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 dwell | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 sister | cc |
| 41 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 sister | nmod:poss |
| 42 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 brothers | conj |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 know | punct |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 swims | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | present | the pool of Corri | a salmon | with a skin | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme salmon=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | shine | present | a skin | like silver | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | gills | red property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring | infinitive | gills = gill | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Destination | ||||
| 5 | know | shall | you | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | dwell | infinitive | you not said here | your brothers and your sister | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme brother=Location |
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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