The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 40

In the deep dark pool of which the old man had spoken the silver-sided salmon was lying under a rock.

Who acts: old man, deep dark pool · What happens: speak, lie · To what, where: sided salmon, rock · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old man, deep dark pool), 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	_	5 pool	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pool	det
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pool	amod
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pool	amod
5	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lying	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 spoken	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spoken	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 spoken	aux
12	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 pool	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 salmon	det
14	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sided	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 silver	punct
16	sided	sided	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 salmon	amod
17	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spoken	obj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lying	aux
19	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
20	under	under	ADP	_	22 rock	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 rock	det
22	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lying	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · perfect	the old man	the sided salmon				of the deep dark pool	tree rules
2	lie	past · progressive	the deep dark pool			a rock			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under rock=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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