The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 34

How their silver sides glistened in the light, and how he longed to catch some of the great fellows!

Who acts: silver sides, noise · What happens: glisten, long, catch · To what, where: light, some

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silver sides, noise), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 glistened	advmod
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sides	nmod:poss
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sides	compound
4	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 glistened	nsubj
5	glistened	glisten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 light	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 light	det
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glistened	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 longed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 longed	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 longed	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 longed	nsubj
13	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glistened	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 catch	mark
15	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 longed	xcomp
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 catch	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 fellows	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fellows	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fellows	amod
20	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 some	nmod
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 glistened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	glisten	participle	salmon's silver sides		the light	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location
2	long	past	noise			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	noise not said here	some		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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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