The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 38
The sweet sounds they followed, The gasping cod swallow’d-- ‘Twas wonderful, really; And turbot and flounder, ‘Mid fish that were rounder, Just caper’d as gaily.
Who acts: Came, gasping, turbot · What happens: follow, 'd, be · To what, where: sweet sounds
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Came, gasping, turbot), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sounds | det |
| 2 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sounds | amod |
| 3 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 followed | nsubj |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sounds | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’d | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ’d | det |
| 8 | gasping | gasping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ’d | nsubj |
| 9 | cod | cod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ’d | compound |
| 10 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ’d | compound |
| 11 | ’d | 'd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sounds | conj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 Twas | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Twas | punct |
| 14 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ’d | conj |
| 15 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ’d | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 rounder | punct |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 29 rounder | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 rounder | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 rounder | cc |
| 20 | turbot | turbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rounder | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 flounder | cc |
| 22 | flounder | flounder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turbot | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 rounder | punct |
| 24 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 rounder | punct |
| 25 | Mid | mid | ADJ | _ | 26 fish | amod |
| 26 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 rounder | nsubj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 rounder | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 rounder | cop |
| 29 | rounder | round | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 sounds | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ’d | punct |
| 31 | Just | Just | PROPN | _ | 33 ’d | compound |
| 32 | caper | caper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ’d | compound |
| 33 | ’d | 'd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rounder | obl |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 gaily | case |
| 35 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 ’d | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sounds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Came | the sweet sounds and the cod swallow ’d and Twas not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | ||||
| 2 | 'd | gasping | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | turbot and flounder | Just caper ’d as gaily obl; round property | tree rules |
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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