The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 72

As the last star twinkled out of the sky they drew them in, and among the multitude of fishes lay two with scales of gold, such as no man had ever looked on.

Who acts: fishermen · What happens: twinkle out, draw, lay, look on · To what, where: sky, nets, two, multitude, scales

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishermen), 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	As	as	ADP	_	4 star	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 star	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 star	amod
4	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 twinkled	obl
5	twinkled	twinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 sky	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sky	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sky	det
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 twinkled	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 drew	nsubj
11	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sky	acl:relcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 drew	obj
13	in	in	ADV	_	11 drew	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lay	cc
16	among	among	ADP	_	18 multitude	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 multitude	det
18	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 fishes	case
20	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 multitude	nmod
21	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 twinkled	parataxis
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 lay	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 scales	case
24	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lay	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 gold	case
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 scales	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 looked	punct
28	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	31 man	case
29	as	as	ADP	_	28 such	fixed
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 looked	obl
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 looked	aux
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 looked	advmod
34	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 scales	acl
35	on	on	ADP	_	34 looked	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 twinkled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twinkle out	past		the sky			as the last star	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sky=Theme
2	draw	past	fishermen = fisherman	nets = net				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	lay	present		two	the multitude of fishes		with scales of gold	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent two=Theme among multitude=Destination
4	look on	past · perfect		scales of gold not said here		ever	such no man	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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