The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 77

I have not forgotten you,’ she cried, and one by one she let the grains of rice fall into the water, where the fish gobbled them up greedily, for he had never tasted anything so nice.

Who acts: I, stream, one, grains, fish · What happens: not forget, cry, let, fall, gobble up, not taste · To what, where: you, water, grains, anything

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stream, one, grains), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 forgotten	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 forgotten	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 forgotten	advmod
4	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 forgotten	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forgotten	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 let	nsubj
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 one	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 one	nmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	nsubj
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 grains	det
18	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fall	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 rice	case
20	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grains	nmod
21	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 let	parataxis
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 water	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fall	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gobbled	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 gobbled	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fish	det
28	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 gobbled	nsubj
29	gobbled	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fall	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gobbled	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	29 gobbled	compound:prt
32	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	29 gobbled	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tasted	punct
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 tasted	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 tasted	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 tasted	aux
37	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 tasted	advmod
38	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 gobbled	parataxis
39	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	38 tasted	obj
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 nice	advmod
41	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 anything	amod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forgotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not forget	present · perfect	I	you		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	stream			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	let	past	one by one			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	fall	present	the grains of rice		into the water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result
5	gobble up	past	the fish	grains = grain	greedily property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	not taste	past · perfect	fish	anything		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme anything=Attribute

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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