The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 5
One day, among the other fishes, he caught a golden crab.
Who acts: fish · What happens: catch · To what, where: golden crab
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fishes | punct |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 fishes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fishes | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fishes | amod |
| 7 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 day | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 caught | nsubj |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 crab | det |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 crab | amod |
| 13 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | fish | a golden crab | day | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crab=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/7/5/