The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 30

‘Come lawyer, come miller, come tailor, come singer!’ cried she, holding out a net of steel; and at each summons a fish appeared and jumped into the net.

Who acts: fish · What happens: come, cry, hold out, summon, appear, jump · To what, where: lawyer, miller, tailor, singer, net, each

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cried	parataxis
3	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
6	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
9	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
12	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cried	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 holding	punct
18	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 cried	advcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 holding	compound:prt
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 net	det
21	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 holding	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 steel	case
23	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 net	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 summons	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 summons	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 each	case
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 summons	obl
28	summons	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 cried	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fish	det
30	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 appeared	nsubj
31	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 summons	ccomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 jumped	cc
33	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 appeared	conj
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 net	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 net	det
36	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 jumped	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	infinitive		lawyer		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lawyer=Theme
2	come	infinitive		miller		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location miller=Theme
3	come	infinitive		tailor		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tailor=Theme
4	come	infinitive		singer		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location singer=Theme
5	cry speech: express	past		tailor		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
6	hold out	gerund		a net of steel		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme
7	summon	present			each	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	appear	past	a fish			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	jump	past	a fish not said here		the net	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into net=Destination

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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