The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 82

Then a very little fish indeed, not more than four inches long and the youngest of the tribe, bowed himself before Thuggai, saying, ‘Ask my father, Guddhu the cod, to light the fire.

Who acts: little fish · What happens: bow, say, ask, light · To what, where: Thuggai, cod, father, fire · 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 (little fish), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 bowed	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fish	amod
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bowed	nsubj
6	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	13 long	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 long	advmod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	13 long	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	9 more	fixed
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 inches	nummod
12	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 long	obl:unmarked
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fish	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 youngest	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 youngest	det
16	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 long	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 tribe	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tribe	det
19	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 youngest	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fish	punct
21	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 bowed	obj
23	before	before	ADP	_	24 Thuggai	case
24	Thuggai	Thuggai	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 bowed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saying	punct
26	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 bowed	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Ask	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 Ask	punct
29	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 saying	ccomp
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 father	nmod:poss
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Ask	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Guddhu	punct
33	Guddhu	Guddhu	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 father	appos
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cod	det
35	cod	cod	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Ask	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 light	punct
37	to	to	PART	_	38 light	mark
38	light	light	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 Ask	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 fire	det
40	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 light	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 bowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	bow	past	a little fish	Thuggai		before Thuggai; then	vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
2	say speech: assert	gerund	a little fish not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive		the cod	my father		tree rules
4	light	to-infinitive		the fire			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product

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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