The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 56
One beautiful bright morning, as he was hauling his well-filled nets into the boat, he saw lying among the fishes a tiny little turtle.
Who acts: son · What happens: haul, fill, see, lie · To what, where: filled nets, boat, tiny little turtle
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 morning | nummod |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hauling | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 hauling | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hauling | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hauling | aux |
| 9 | hauling | haul | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 morning | acl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nets | nmod:poss |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 filled | advmod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 well | punct |
| 13 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 nets | amod |
| 14 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hauling | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 boat | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boat | det |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hauling | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 saw | xcomp |
| 22 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 fishes | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fishes | det |
| 24 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lying | obl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 turtle | det |
| 26 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 turtle | amod |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 turtle | amod |
| 28 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lying | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haul | past · progressive | son | son's filled nets | the boat | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme | |||
| 2 | fill | participle | well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | see | past | son | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | son not said here | a tiny little turtle | among the fishes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location turtle=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 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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