The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 87

In a minute the grateful fish swam towards the bank on which Iwanich was standing, and said: ‘What do you command, my friend and benefactor?’

Who acts: grateful fish, Iwanich, you · What happens: swim, stand, say, command · To what, where: bank, friend · 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 (grateful fish, Iwanich, you), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 minute	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 minute	det
3	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swam	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
5	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fish	amod
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swam	nsubj
7	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	10 bank	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bank	det
10	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swam	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 standing	obl
13	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 standing	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 standing	aux
15	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 swam	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swam	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 command	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 command	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 command	obj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 command	aux
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 command	nsubj
24	command	command	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 friend	punct
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 friend	nmod:poss
27	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 command	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 benefactor	cc
29	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 friend	conj
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 command	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 command	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	swim	past	the grateful fish		the bank	minute	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards bank=Destination
2	stand	past · progressive	Iwanich				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the grateful fish not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	command	present · do-support	you	my friend and benefactor			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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