The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 242

It was so beautiful, full of flowers and fresh grass; the fishes which were swimming in the water shot past my ears as the birds do here in the air.

Who acts: river, fishes, birds · What happens: be, swim, shoot, do · To what, where: water, air

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, fishes, birds), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beautiful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beautiful	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 beautiful	advmod
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beautiful	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 flowers	case
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grass	cc
10	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grass	amod
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flowers	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 shot	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fishes	det
14	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 shot	nsubj
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 swimming	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 swimming	aux
17	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fishes	acl:relcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 water	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swimming	obl
21	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beautiful	parataxis
22	past	past	ADP	_	24 ears	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 ears	nmod:poss
24	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 shot	obl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 do	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 birds	det
27	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 do	nsubj
28	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 shot	advcl
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 do	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 air	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 air	det
32	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 do	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	river		beautiful property	tree rules
2	be		river not said here		of flowers and fresh grass	tree rules
3	swim	past · progressive	the fishes	the water		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory
4	shoot	past	the fishes		past my ears	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	do	present	the birds	the air; here		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 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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