The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 65

And the fishes left the stones where they had been sleeping, and the pools where they had been feeding, and hurried to see who could get to the island first.

Who acts: fishes · What happens: leave, sleep, be, hurry, see, get · To what, where: stones, feeding · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishes), 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	_	4 left	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fishes	det
3	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stones	det
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 left	obj
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 sleeping	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sleeping	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sleeping	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 sleeping	aux
11	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 stones	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pools	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pools	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pools	det
15	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 left	obl
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 feeding	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 feeding	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 feeding	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 feeding	cop
20	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pools	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hurried	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hurried	cc
23	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 hurried	xcomp
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 get	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 get	aux
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 see	ccomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 island	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 island	det
31	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obl
32	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 get	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the fishes	the stones	the pools obl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	sleep	past · perfect · progressive	fishes = fish			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past · perfect	fishes = fish	feeding		tree rules
4	hurry	past	the fishes not said here			tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive	the fishes not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	get	could			to the island result; first property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to island=Result

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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