The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 37

Trout, salmon, turbot, soles, and a hundred other fishes whose names he did not know, lay boiled, fried, and grilled within reach of his hands.

Who acts: Father, hundred other fishes · What happens: not know, lay, boil, fry, grill, name · To what, where: names

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, hundred other 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	Trout	trout	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 salmon	punct
3	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Trout	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 turbot	punct
5	turbot	turbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Trout	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 soles	punct
7	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Trout	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fishes	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fishes	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hundred	det
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 fishes	nummod
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fishes	amod
13	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Trout	conj
14	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	15 names	nmod:poss
15	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fishes	nmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 know	advmod
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 names	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
21	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 know	conj
22	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 lay	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fried	punct
24	fried	fry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 boiled	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 grilled	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grilled	cc
27	grilled	grill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Trout	conj
28	within	within	ADP	_	29 reach	case
29	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grilled	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 hands	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hands	nmod:poss
32	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 reach	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Trout	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	Father	hundred other fishes hundred other fishes names's names's names not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
2	lay	infinitive	Father not said here			tree rules
3	boil	participle	Father not said here			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	fry	participle	Father not said here			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	grill	participle			within reach of Father's hands	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	name		hundred other fishes hundred other fishes names's names			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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