The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 55
Here is actually a four-footed creature caught in the net.
Who acts: footed creature · What happens: be, catch · To what, where: footed creature, net
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 (footed creature), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 8 creature | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 creature | det |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 footed | nummod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 four | punct |
| 7 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 creature | amod |
| 8 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 creature | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 net | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 net | det |
| 12 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a footed creature | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | participle | a footed creature not said here | the net | vn get-13.5.1 «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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