The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 95

Then all the fishes came swimming past them, and meanwhile the troll’s daughter stood just by the youth’s side.

Who acts: fishes, daughter · What happens: come, swim, meanwhile, stand

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishes, daughter), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 fishes	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fishes	det
4	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 came	xcomp
7	past	past	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swimming	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 meanwhile	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 meanwhile	cc
11	meanwhile	meanwhile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 troll	det
13	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 daughter	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 troll	case
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	nsubj
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 meanwhile	ccomp
17	just	just	ADV	_	22 side	advmod
18	by	by	ADP	_	22 side	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 youth	det
20	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 side	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 youth	case
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	all fishes	then		tree rules
2	swim	gerund	all fishes not said here		past questions = question	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past they=Trajectory
3	meanwhile	infinitive	all fishes not said here			tree rules
4	stand	past	the troll's daughter		by the youth's side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location

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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