The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 40

And they wove him the net he asked for, and for many weeks he watched by the river, only going back to the old women when he wanted a fish cooked.

Who acts: salmon, noise, fish · What happens: weave, ask, watch, go back, want, cook · To what, where: net, noise, fish

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 (salmon, noise, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 wove	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wove	nsubj
3	wove	weave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wove	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 net	det
6	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wove	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 net	acl:relcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	8 asked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 watched	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 watched	cc
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 weeks	case
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 weeks	amod
14	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 watched	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 watched	nsubj
16	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wove	parataxis
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 river	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 river	det
19	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 watched	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 going	punct
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 going	advmod
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 watched	conj
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 going	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 women	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 women	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 women	amod
27	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 going	obl
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 wanted	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wanted	nsubj
30	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 going	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 fish	det
32	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wanted	obj
33	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 wanted	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	weave	past	salmon	the net	noise			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary net=Product
2	ask speech: ask	past	noise	the net not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent net=Recipient
3	watch	past	noise			week	by the river	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by river=Location
4	go back	gerund	noise not said here				to the old women result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to woman=Result
5	want	past	noise	a fish				tree rules
6	cook not said to happen	participle	a fish not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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