The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 101

The little fishes swimming about under the water had seen the toad quite plainly, and heard what she had said; so they put up their heads to see the little girl.

Who acts: little fishes, THUMBELINA, fishes · What happens: swim, see, hear, say, put up · To what, where: little fishes, heads, little girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little fishes, THUMBELINA, fishes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fishes	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fishes	amod
3	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seen	nsubj:pass
4	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 fishes	acl
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 water	case
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swimming	obl
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 toad	det
12	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seen	obj
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 plainly	advmod
14	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	10 seen	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heard	cc
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	conj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 heard	obj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	aux
21	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 what	acl:relcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 put	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 put	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	nsubj
25	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	parataxis
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 put	compound:prt
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 heads	nmod:poss
28	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 put	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 see	mark
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 put	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 girl	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 girl	amod
33	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swim	gerund	the little fishes not said here		about the water	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about water=Trajectory
2	see	past · perfect · passive		the little fishes	plainly property	tree rules
3	hear	past				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past · perfect	THUMBELINA			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	put up	past	fishes = fish	fishes's heads		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
6	see	to-infinitive	fishes = fish not said here	the little girl		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus

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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