The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 67
The fish had been caught, taken to market, sold, and brought into the kitchen, where the cook had cut it open with a great knife.
What happens: catch, take, sell, bring, cut · To what, where: fish, kitchen, cook
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: 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 | 2 fish | det |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 caught | aux:pass |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taken | punct |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 caught | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 market | case |
| 9 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sold | punct |
| 11 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 taken | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brought | cc |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 kitchen | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kitchen | det |
| 17 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cut | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 cut | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cook | det |
| 21 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 cut | aux |
| 23 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 brought | parataxis |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 cut | obj |
| 25 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cut | xcomp |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 knife | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 knife | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 knife | amod |
| 29 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cut | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · perfect · passive | the fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | participle | to market result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to market=Result | |||||
| 3 | sell | participle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | bring | past | the kitchen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into kitchen=Destination | |||||
| 5 | cut | past · perfect · passive | the cook | with a great knife; open property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient it=Result with knife=Instrument |
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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