The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 111

‘Yes, indeed,’ said the village elders, ‘it is certainly the first time we have heard that hares thrive in the water or fish among the tree tops.’

Who acts: sort, hares · What happens: say, be, thrive · To what, where: village elders, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sort, hares), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 indeed	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 indeed	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 elders	det
9	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 elders	compound
10	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	cop
15	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	21 heard	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 time	det
17	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 time	amod
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	obl:unmarked
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	aux
21	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 thrive	mark
23	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 thrive	nsubj
24	thrive	thrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thrive	obl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 fish	cc
29	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 water	conj
30	among	among	ADP	_	33 tops	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tops	det
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tops	compound
33	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 thrive	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the village elders			indeed property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent elder=Topic
2	is	present · perfect	sort			time	certainly, hear property	tree rules
3	thrive	present	hares		the water or fish		among the tree tops	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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