The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 39
Bless my soul, if there isn’t a fish, a real pike I do believe, up in that tree.’
Who acts: you, fish, I · What happens: bless, be, believe · To what, where: soul, real pike
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 (you, fish, I), 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 | Bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 soul | nmod:poss |
| 3 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bless | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 is | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bless | advcl |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 fish | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fish | det |
| 10 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pike | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pike | det |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pike | amod |
| 14 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fish | appos |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 believe | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 believe | aux |
| 17 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pike | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 up | punct |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 believe | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 tree | det |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 up | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bless | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | imperative | you not said here | my soul | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | a fish | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | believe | present · do-support | I | a real pike not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pike=Stimulus |
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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