The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 72

So he called to the fish, and the fish dived to the bottom and slipped behind big stones, and moved little ones with its tail till it found the ring, and brought it to Jose in its mouth.

Who acts: deal, fish · What happens: call, dive, slip, move, find, bring · To what, where: fish, bottom, big stones, little ones, ring, Jose · 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 (deal, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 called	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 fish	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dived	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dived	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fish	det
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dived	nsubj
11	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 bottom	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bottom	det
14	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dived	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 slipped	cc
16	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dived	conj
17	behind	behind	ADV	_	18 big	advmod
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stones	amod
19	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 slipped	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 moved	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 moved	cc
22	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ones	amod
24	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 moved	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 tail	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tail	nmod:poss
27	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 moved	obl
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 found	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 found	nsubj
30	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 moved	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ring	det
32	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 found	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 brought	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 brought	cc
35	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 brought	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 Jose	case
38	Jose	Jose	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 brought	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 mouth	case
40	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 mouth	nmod:poss
41	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 brought	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	past	deal		the fish			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to fish=Recipient
2	dive	past	the fish			the bottom		vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Location
3	slip	past	the fish not said here	big stones				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
4	move	past	deal not said here	little ones			with fish's tail	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	find	past	fish	the ring				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic
6	bring	past	deal not said here	fish	Jose	fish's mouth		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to jose=Destination

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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