The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 109
And Ciccu knew him to be the fish that he had saved from death, and he took the ring and rode back with it to the king.
Who acts: Ciccu, fish · What happens: know, be, save, take, ride back · To what, where: eater, fish, death, ring
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 (Ciccu, 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 | _ | 3 knew | cc |
| 2 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 be | mark |
| 6 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knew | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fish | det |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 be | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 saved | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saved | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saved | aux |
| 12 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 fish | acl:relcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 death | case |
| 14 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saved | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ring | det |
| 20 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rode | cc |
| 22 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 rode | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 rode | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 king | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rode | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Ciccu | eater | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | to-infinitive | the fish | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | save | past · perfect | Ciccu | the fish not said here | death | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fish=Theme from death=Source | |||
| 4 | take | past | Ciccu | the ring | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ride back | past | Ciccu not said here | with fish; to the king | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to king=Trajectory |
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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