The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 144

The great fish heaved itself up and threw up all the twelve ships and their crews.

Who acts: great fish · What happens: heave up, throw up · To what, where: fish, twelve ships

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heaved	nsubj
4	heaved	heave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 heaved	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 heaved	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 threw	cc
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heaved	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 threw	compound:prt
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 ships	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ships	det
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 ships	nummod
13	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 threw	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 crews	cc
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 crews	nmod:poss
16	crews	crew	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ships	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heaved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heave up	past	the great fish	fish					vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
2	throw up	past	the great fish not said here	all twelve ships and ships's crews					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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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