The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 65

“Oh, not far off,” answered he; “I just stuck my tail in the stream close by the place where the elves dwell, and the fish hung on to it of itself.”

Who acts: I, elves, fish · What happens: answer, stick, dwell, hang on · To what, where: snow, tail, stream, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, elves, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 off	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 off	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 off	advmod
6	off	off	ADV	_	9 answered	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 off	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 off	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 answered	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 stuck	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 stuck	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 stuck	nsubj
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 stuck	advmod
15	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	parataxis
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tail	nmod:poss
17	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stuck	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 stream	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stream	det
20	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stuck	obl
21	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stream	amod
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 place	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 place	det
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 close	obl
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 dwell	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 elves	det
27	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dwell	nsubj
28	dwell	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 place	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hung	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hung	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fish	det
32	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hung	nsubj
33	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stuck	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	33 hung	compound:prt
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hung	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 itself	case
38	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 hung	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			snow		off property	tree rules
2	stick in a quote	past	I	my tail		the stream		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme in stream=Destination
3	dwell in a quote	present	the elves					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hang on in a quote	past	the fish		place		of place	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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