The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 6

When he came home he put all the fishes together into a great dish, but he kept the Crab separate because it shone so beautifully, and placed it upon a high shelf in the cupboard.

Who acts: fish, Crab · What happens: come, put, keep, separate, shine, place · To what, where: fishes, great dish, crab, cupboard

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, Crab), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 fishes	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fishes	det
9	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	obj
10	together	together	ADV	_	6 put	advmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 dish	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dish	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dish	amod
14	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kept	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 kept	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 kept	nsubj
18	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Crab	det
20	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 separate	nsubj
21	separate	separate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 kept	conj
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 shone	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shone	nsubj
24	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 separate	advcl
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 beautifully	advmod
26	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	24 shone	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 placed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 placed	cc
29	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 placed	obj
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 shelf	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 shelf	det
33	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 shelf	amod
34	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 placed	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 cupboard	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 cupboard	det
37	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 placed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	fish				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	past	fish		all fishes	a great dish	together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fish=Goal
3	keep	past	fish					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	separate	present	the Crab					vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	shine	past	crab				beautifully property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	place	past	fish not said here	crab		the cupboard	upon a high shelf	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon shelf=Destination

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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