The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 53

He ran to it, and when he had looked in it he called to his wife:

Who acts: fish · What happens: run, look, call · To what, where: net, wife · 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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looked	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 looked	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 looked	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looked	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 looked	aux
10	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 ran	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looked	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 called	nsubj
14	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 wife	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wife	nmod:poss
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 called	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	fish		net		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination
2	look	past · perfect	fish			in net	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in it=Theme
3	call	past	fish	fish's wife			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient

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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