The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 63

The little man had been sitting on the bank fishing, when unfortunately the wind had entangled his beard in the line; and when immediately afterward a big fish bit, the feeble little creature had no strength to pull it out; the fish had the upper fin, and dragged the dwarf toward him.

Who acts: little man, feeble little creature, strength, fish · What happens: sit, entangle, have, pull out, drag · To what, where: bank fishing, wind, line, strength, upper fin, dwarf

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little man, feeble little creature, strength, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 fishing	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fishing	det
9	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fishing	compound
10	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 entangled	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 entangled	advmod
13	unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	_	17 entangled	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wind	det
15	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 entangled	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 entangled	aux
17	entangled	entangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sitting	parataxis
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 beard	nmod:poss
19	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 entangled	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 line	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 line	det
22	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 entangled	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 had	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 immediately	advmod
26	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	37 had	advmod
27	afterward	afterward	ADP	_	31 bit	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bit	det
29	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bit	amod
30	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bit	compound
31	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bit	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 creature	det
34	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 creature	amod
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 creature	amod
36	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 entangled	conj
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 strength	det
39	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 pull	mark
41	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 had	xcomp
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 pull	obj
43	out	out	ADP	_	41 pull	compound:prt
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 had	punct
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 fish	det
46	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 had	nsubj
47	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	parataxis
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 fin	det
49	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 fin	amod
50	fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 had	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 dragged	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 dragged	cc
53	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 had	conj
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 dwarf	det
55	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 dragged	obj
56	toward	toward	ADP	_	57 him	case
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 dragged	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · perfect · progressive	the little man		the bank fishing		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on fishing=Location
2	entangle	past · perfect · passive		the wind	the line	unfortunately property	tree rules
3	have	past	the feeble little creature	no strength		afterward a big fish bit; immediately property	tree rules
4	pull out	to-infinitive	no strength not said here	strength			tree rules
5	have	past	the fish	the upper fin			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fin=Patient
6	drag	past	the fish not said here	the dwarf		toward fish	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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