The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 73

They all gathered round and wondered, and after some talk they decided that they would take the little fishes alive as they were, and give them as a present to the emperor.

Who acts: fishermen · What happens: gather, wonder, decide, take, be, give · To what, where: little fishes, fishermen · Speech: someone speaks here

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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gathered	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 gathered	advmod
3	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 gathered	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wondered	cc
6	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gathered	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 decided	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 decided	cc
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 talk	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 talk	det
11	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 decided	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 decided	nsubj
13	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gathered	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 take	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 take	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 take	aux
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 decided	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fishes	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fishes	amod
20	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 take	obj
21	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fishes	amod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 were	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 were	nsubj
24	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 take	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 give	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 give	cc
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 take	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 give	iobj
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 present	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 present	det
31	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 emperor	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 emperor	det
34	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 present	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past	fishermen = fisherman			round property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wonder speech: ask	past	fishermen = fisherman not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	decide	past	fishermen = fisherman		after some talk		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take	would	fishermen = fisherman	the little fishes			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fish=Destination
5	be	past	fishermen = fisherman				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	give	infinitive	fishermen = fisherman not said here	fishermen = fisherman		as a present to the emperor	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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