The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 74

He had not cast his line for ten minutes the next morning before he drew from the river the most beautiful fish he had ever seen in his life.

Who acts: cobbler · What happens: not cast, draw, see · To what, where: line, beautiful fish, river, life

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cobbler), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cast	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cast	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 cast	advmod
4	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 line	nmod:poss
6	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cast	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 minutes	case
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 minutes	nummod
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cast	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 morning	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 morning	amod
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cast	obl:unmarked
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 drew	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 drew	nsubj
15	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cast	advcl
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drew	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fish	det
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 beautiful	advmod
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fish	amod
22	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drew	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seen	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	aux
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 seen	advmod
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 fish	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 life	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 life	nmod:poss
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seen	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not cast	past · perfect	cobbler	cobbler's line		minute; morning	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Product
2	draw	past	cobbler	the beautiful fish	the river		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme from river=Initial_Location
3	see	past · perfect	cobbler	the beautiful fish not said here	cobbler's life	ever	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus

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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