The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 66
I am certain that all the fish are out of the lake, for the yard is just filled with them.’
Who acts: I, fish · What happens: be, fill · To what, where: lake, yard
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 certain | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 certain | cop |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 lake | mark |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 fish | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fish | det |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lake | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lake | cop |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 lake | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lake | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lake | det |
| 12 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 certain | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 filled | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 filled | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 yard | det |
| 16 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 filled | aux:pass |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 filled | advmod |
| 19 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 certain | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 filled | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 certain | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | all fish | the lake | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fill | present · passive | the yard | with wife | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with they=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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