The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 96

When at last the right fish came swimming along she gave him a nudge, and he seized it at once, drove his knife into it, and split it up, took the heart out of it, and cut it through the middle.

Who acts: last right fish, daughter, fish · What happens: come, swim, give, seize, drive, split up · To what, where: nudge, fish, knife, heart, middle

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 (last right fish, daughter, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 last	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fish	amod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fish	amod
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 came	xcomp
9	along	along	ADP	_	11 gave	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 swimming	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	iobj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 nudge	det
14	nudge	nudge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seized	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seized	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seized	nsubj
18	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seized	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 once	case
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 seized	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 drove	punct
23	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seized	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 knife	nmod:poss
25	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drove	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 drove	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 split	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 split	cc
30	split	split	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 came	parataxis
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 split	obj
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 split	compound:prt
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 took	punct
34	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 heart	det
36	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 took	obj
37	out	out	ADP	_	39 it	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 took	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 cut	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 cut	cc
42	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	parataxis
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 cut	obj
44	through	through	ADP	_	46 middle	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 middle	det
46	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 cut	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	the last right fish				tree rules
2	swim	gerund	the last right fish not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past	daughter	a nudge	fish		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nudge=Theme
4	seize	past	fish	nudge			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	drive	past	fish not said here	fish's knife		knife	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme into it=Trajectory
6	split up	infinitive		nudge			tree rules
7	take	past	the last right fish not said here	the heart		heart	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent heart=Theme out it=Initial_Location
8	cut	past		heart		the middle	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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