The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 65

Up and down swam the fish, then he made the most dreadful contortions, and became suddenly quite still.

Who acts: fish · What happens: swim, make, become · To what, where: fish, dreadful contortions

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish), 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	Up	up	ADV	_	4 swam	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 down	cc
3	down	down	ADV	_	4 swam	advmod
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swam	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 made	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swam	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 contortions	det
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 dreadful	advmod
13	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 contortions	amod
14	contortions	contortion	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 became	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 became	cc
17	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swam	conj
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	17 became	advmod
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 still	advmod
20	still	still	ADV	_	17 became	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past		the fish		down property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fish=Theme
2	make	past	fish	the dreadful contortions	then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contortion=Product
3	become	past			still	suddenly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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