The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 44

But the man only shook his head and shrugged his shoulders and opened his mouth and gaped as if he really could not believe his own eyes.

Who acts: man, fish · What happens: shake, shrug, open, gape, not believe · To what, where: head, shoulders, mouth, own eyes

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 (man, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 shook	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shook	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 shook	advmod
5	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shook	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shrugged	cc
9	shrugged	shrug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shook	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shoulders	nmod:poss
11	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shrugged	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 opened	cc
13	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shrugged	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mouth	nmod:poss
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 opened	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gaped	cc
17	gaped	gape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 opened	conj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 believe	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 believe	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 believe	nsubj
21	really	really	ADV	_	24 believe	advmod
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 believe	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 believe	advmod
24	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 gaped	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 eyes	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eyes	amod
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 believe	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	shake	past	the man	fish's head	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	shrug	past	the man not said here	fish's shoulders	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient
3	open	past	the man not said here	fish's mouth	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
4	gape	participle	the man not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not believe	could	fish	fish's own eyes	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=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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