The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 137

He barked so long and so loud that he woke all the other fish, who came swimming up round the Princess’s bed, and poking at it with their great heads.

Who acts: Frisk, other fish · What happens: bark, wake, come, swim up, poke · To what, where: other fish, bed

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frisk, other 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 barked	nsubj
2	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 barked	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 loud	cc
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 loud	advmod
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 barked	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 woke	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 woke	nsubj
10	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 loud	advcl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 fish	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fish	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fish	amod
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 woke	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fish	acl:relcl
18	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 came	xcomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 swimming	compound:prt
20	round	round	ADP	_	24 bed	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Princess	det
22	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 bed	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Princess	case
24	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swimming	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 poking	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 poking	cc
27	poking	poke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 came	advcl
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 poking	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 heads	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 heads	nmod:poss
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 heads	amod
33	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 poking	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 barked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bark	past	Frisk			long property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wake	past	Frisk	all other fish			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
3	come	past	all other fish				tree rules
4	swim up	gerund	all other fish not said here		the Princess's bed		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round bed=Trajectory
5	poke	gerund	all other fish not said here			with Princess's great heads; at bed	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent at it=Theme with head=Instrument

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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