The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 57

One day, while he was watching the horses, he came to the banks of a river, and saw a big fish, which through some mischance had been cast on the land, struggling hard to get back into the water.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: watch, come, see, cast, struggle, get back · To what, where: horses, banks, big fish, mischance, water

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 watching	punct
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 watching	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 watching	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 watching	aux
7	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horses	det
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 watching	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 banks	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 banks	det
15	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 banks	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 saw	cc
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fish	det
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fish	amod
24	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cast	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 cast	obj
27	through	through	ADP	_	29 mischance	case
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 mischance	det
29	mischance	mischance	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cast	obl
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 cast	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 cast	aux:pass
32	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 fish	acl:relcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 land	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 land	det
35	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cast	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 struggling	punct
37	struggling	struggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 saw	parataxis
38	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 struggling	xcomp
39	to	to	PART	_	40 get	mark
40	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 hard	xcomp
41	back	back	ADV	_	40 get	advmod
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 water	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 water	det
44	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 get	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past · progressive	Prince	the horses				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
2	come	past	Prince		the banks of a river	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial_Location
3	see	past	Prince not said here	a big fish				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus
4	cast	past · perfect · passive		a big fish	some mischance		on the land	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: which=Theme through mischance=Destination
5	struggle	gerund					hard property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	get back	to-infinitive			the water			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into water=Destination

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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