The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 69

They would tell you that long, long ago you would have met fishes on the land, wandering from place to place, and hunting all sorts of animals, and if you consider how fishes are made, you will understand how difficult this must have been and how clever they were to do it.

Who acts: fishes, you, difficult · What happens: tell, meet, wonder, hunt, consider, make · To what, where: you, fishes, land, place, sorts, animals · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishes, you, difficult), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 long	mark
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tell	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 met	punct
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 ago	advmod
9	ago	ago	ADV	_	13 met	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 met	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 met	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 met	aux
13	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 tell	advcl
14	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 met	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 land	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 land	det
17	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fishes	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wandering	punct
19	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 met	advcl
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 place	case
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wandering	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 place	case
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 place	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hunting	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hunting	cc
26	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tell	advcl
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 sorts	det
28	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hunting	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 animals	case
30	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sorts	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 understand	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 understand	cc
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 consider	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 consider	nsubj
35	consider	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 understand	advcl
36	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	39 made	advmod
37	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 made	nsubj:pass
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 made	aux:pass
39	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 consider	xcomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 consider	punct
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 understand	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 understand	aux
43	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hunting	advcl
44	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	45 difficult	advmod
45	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 clever	nsubj
46	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 difficult	nsubj
47	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 clever	aux
48	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 clever	aux
49	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 clever	cop
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 clever	cc
51	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	52 clever	advmod
52	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 understand	ccomp
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 do	nsubj
54	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 do	aux
55	to	to	PART	_	56 do	mark
56	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 clever	parataxis
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 do	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would	fishes = fish		you		long property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	meet	would · perfect	you	fishes		the land	ago property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Co-Agent
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund	you not said here			place to place		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	hunt	gerund	fishes = fish not said here	all sorts of animals				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme
5	consider a condition, not said to happen	present	you					vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	make	present · passive		fishes				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
7	understand	future	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	must · perfect	difficult				clever property	tree rules
9	do	past	fishes = fish	place				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
10	sort			animals				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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