The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 12

The had ridden many miles, and at last they came to a river, where they beheld a little fish lying gasping on the sand, and the horse said:

Who acts: miles, little fish, horse · What happens: ride, come, behold, lie, gasp, say · To what, where: many miles, last, little fish, sand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles, little fish, horse), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ridden	det
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ridden	aux
3	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 said	ccomp
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 miles	amod
5	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ridden	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 came	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ridden	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 river	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beheld	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 beheld	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beheld	nsubj
18	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 river	acl:relcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fish	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fish	amod
21	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beheld	obj
22	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 fish	acl
23	gasping	gasp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 lying	xcomp
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 sand	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sand	det
26	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gasping	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 horse	det
30	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past · perfect		many miles			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Theme
2	come	past	miles = mile		last	to a river	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
3	behold	past	miles = mile	a little fish			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus
4	lie	gerund	a little fish not said here				tree rules
5	gasp	gerund	a little fish not said here		the sand		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	past	the horse				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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