The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 79

So the salmon swam close under the island, and when he was touching it the fox seized him in his claws and drew him out of the water, and put him on a spit, while he kindled a fire to cook him by.

Who acts: salmon, fox · What happens: swim, touch, seize, draw, put, kindle · To what, where: island, salmon, claws, fox, water, spit

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 (salmon, fox), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 swam	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 salmon	det
3	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swam	nsubj
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 swam	advmod
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 island	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 island	det
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swam	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 touching	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 touching	cc
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 touching	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 touching	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 touching	aux
14	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 seized	csubj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 touching	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fox	det
17	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seized	nsubj
18	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swam	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seized	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 claws	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 claws	nmod:poss
22	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 seized	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drew	cc
24	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swam	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drew	obj
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 water	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 water	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drew	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 put	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 put	cc
32	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 swam	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 put	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 spit	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 spit	det
36	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 kindled	punct
38	while	while	SCONJ	_	40 kindled	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 kindled	nsubj
40	kindled	kindle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swam	conj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 fire	det
42	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 kindled	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 cook	mark
44	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 kindled	xcomp
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 cook	obj
46	by	by	ADP	_	44 cook	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim	past	the salmon		the island	close property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under island=Trajectory
2	touch	past · progressive	salmon	island			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
3	seize	past	the fox	salmon	fox's claws		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	draw	past	the salmon not said here	fox	the water		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out water=Initial_Location
5	put	infinitive	the salmon not said here	fox	a spit		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on spit=Destination
6	kindle	past	fox	a fire			tree rules
7	cook	to-infinitive	fox not said here	fox			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=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 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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