The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 78

The fisherman did as they told him--gathered the dew from the leaves and let them swim in it, then put them to lie in the sun till the dew should be all dried up.

Who acts: fisherman, fishermen · What happens: do, tell, gather, let, swim, put · To what, where: loaf, dew, leaves, fishermen, sun · 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 (fisherman, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 told	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 gathered	punct
9	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dew	det
11	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gathered	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 leaves	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 leaves	det
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gathered	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 gathered	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 swim	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 put	advmod
23	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 lie	mark
26	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 put	xcomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 sun	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sun	det
29	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lie	obl
30	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 dried	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dew	det
32	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dried	nsubj:pass
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 dried	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 dried	aux:pass
35	all	all	ADV	_	36 dried	advmod
36	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 lie	advcl
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 dried	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the fisherman						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	fishermen = fisherman		loaf				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	gather	past	fishermen = fisherman not said here	the dew		the leaves			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dew=Theme from leaf=Source
4	let	infinitive	fishermen = fisherman not said here	fishermen = fisherman					tree rules
5	swim	infinitive	fishermen = fisherman not said here			dew			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory
6	put	infinitive	fishermen = fisherman not said here	fishermen = fisherman			then		tree rules
7	lie	to-infinitive	fishermen = fisherman not said here			the sun			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location
8	dry up	should · passive		the dew				all property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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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