The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 135

Pivi dived, with his spear, and the shell-fish opened its shell wider yet, and sucked, and Pivi disappeared into its mouth, and the shell shut up with a snap!

Who acts: Pivi, shell fish, shell · What happens: dive, open, suck, disappear, shut up · To what, where: spear, shell, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pivi, shell fish, shell), 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	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dived	nsubj
2	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spear	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 spear	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 spear	nmod:poss
6	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dived	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 opened	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 opened	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fish	det
10	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fish	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 shell	punct
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 opened	nsubj
13	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dived	parataxis
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 shell	nmod:poss
15	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 opened	obj
16	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 shell	amod
17	yet	yet	ADV	_	13 opened	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sucked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sucked	cc
20	sucked	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dived	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 disappeared	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 disappeared	cc
23	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 disappeared	nsubj
24	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sucked	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 mouth	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mouth	nmod:poss
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 disappeared	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 shut	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 shut	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 shell	det
31	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shut	nsubj
32	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dived	conj
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 shut	compound:prt
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 snap	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 snap	det
36	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shut	obl
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 dived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive	past	Pivi	Kabo's spear				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spear=Theme
2	open	past	the shell fish	fish's shell		yet		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme
3	suck	past						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	disappear	past	Pivi		fish's mouth			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	shut up	participle	the shell				with a snap	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with snap=Instrument

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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