The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 59
But no sooner did the fish find itself in the water again, than, to the Prince’s amazement, it swam up to the bank and said:
Who acts: fish, Prince · What happens: do, find, swim up, say, amaze · To what, where: water, fish, amazement · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fish, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 sooner | det |
| 3 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 find | nsubj |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 find | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 amazement | punct |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 amazement | case |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 amazement | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 amazement | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Prince | det |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Prince | case |
| 20 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 swam | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 swam | nsubj |
| 23 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 amazement | acl:relcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 swam | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 bank | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bank | det |
| 27 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 swam | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the water | again | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | present | the fish | fish | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Topic | ||||
| 3 | swim up | past | fish | the Prince's amazement not said here | to the bank | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location amazement=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | amaze | the Prince | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=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 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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