The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 74

‘Jump down, and throw the fish into the water; he will be useful to us,’ and Ciccu did so.

Who acts: you, Ciccu · What happens: jump down, throw, be, do · To what, where: fish, water, us

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 (you, Ciccu), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Jump	punct
2	Jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 Jump	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 throw	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 throw	cc
6	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Jump	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throw	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throw	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 useful	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 useful	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 useful	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 useful	cop
16	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Jump	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 us	case
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 useful	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Jump	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Jump	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 did	cc
22	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 did	nsubj
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Jump	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	23 did	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Jump	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	jump down	imperative	you not said here			down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	infinitive	you not said here	the fish		into the water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer fish=Theme into water=Result
3	is	future	Ciccu		us	useful property	tree rules
4	do	past	Ciccu				vn act-114-1 «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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