The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 108
And sure enough, very soon a little fish was seen rising to the surface with the lost ring in his mouth.
Who acts: little fish · What happens: see, rise, lose · To what, where: little fish, surface
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 sure | cc |
| 2 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 2 sure | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sure | punct |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 seen | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fish | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fish | amod |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux:pass |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sure | ccomp |
| 12 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 seen | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 surface | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 surface | det |
| 15 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rising | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 ring | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ring | det |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 ring | amod |
| 19 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rising | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 mouth | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ring | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | a little fish | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rise | gerund | a little fish not said here | the surface | with the lost ring in Ciccu's mouth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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