The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 33
I was told only the other day that fish will now live and thrive in the tree tops and that some wild animals spend their time in the water.
Who acts: fish, wild animals · What happens: tell, live, thrive, spend · To what, where: I, tree tops, 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 (fish, wild animals), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | aux:pass |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 day | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 live | mark |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 live | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 live | aux |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 live | advmod |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thrive | cc |
| 14 | thrive | thrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 live | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 tops | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tops | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tops | compound |
| 18 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 thrive | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 spend | cc |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 spend | mark |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 animals | det |
| 22 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 animals | amod |
| 23 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 spend | nsubj |
| 24 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 live | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 time | nmod:poss |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spend | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 water | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 water | det |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spend | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | I | day | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | live not said to happen | future | fish | now | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | thrive | infinitive | fish not said here | the tree tops | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in top=Location | ||||
| 4 | spend | present | some wild animals | the water | time | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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