The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 39

John-dories came tripping; Dull hake, by their skipping, To frisk it seem’d given; Bright mackrel went springing, Like small rainbows winging Their flight up to heaven.

Who acts: John dories, it, Bright mackrel, small rainbows · What happens: come, trip, frisk, seem, give, go · To what, where: Dull hake, ’d, small rainbows, flight

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 (John dories, it, Bright mackrel, small rainbows), 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dories	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 John	punct
3	dories	dory	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tripping	trip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 came	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 hake	punct
7	Dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hake	amod
8	hake	hake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 skipping	punct
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 skipping	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 skipping	nmod:poss
12	skipping	skipping	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 frisk	punct
14	To	to	PART	_	15 frisk	mark
15	frisk	frisk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seem	nsubj
17	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 frisk	ccomp
18	’d	'd	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seem	obj
19	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ’d	acl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
21	Bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mackrel	amod
22	mackrel	mackrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
24	springing	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 went	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rainbows	punct
26	Like	like	ADP	_	28 rainbows	case
27	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 rainbows	amod
28	rainbows	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 springing	obj
29	winging	wing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 rainbows	acl
30	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 flight	nmod:poss
31	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 winging	obj
32	up	up	ADV	_	29 winging	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 heaven	case
34	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 up	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	John dories	Dull hake	by dories's skipping	tree rules
2	trip	gerund	John dories not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	frisk	to-infinitive	John dories not said here			tree rules
4	seem	present	it	’d		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme 'd=Attribute
5	give	participle		’d not said here		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	go	past	Bright mackrel			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	spring	gerund	Bright mackrel not said here	small rainbows		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location rainbow=Theme
8	wing	gerund	small rainbows not said here	dories's flight		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme flight=Trajectory

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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