The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 154

And my brothers were filled with envy, and left me to drown in a brook, but I was saved by a fish who showed me how to get out.

Who acts: fish · What happens: fill, leave, drown, save, show, get out · To what, where: brothers, me, brook, I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 filled	cc
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brothers	nmod:poss
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 filled	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 filled	aux:pass
5	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 envy	case
7	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 filled	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 left	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 left	cc
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 filled	parataxis
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 left	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 drown	mark
13	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 left	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 brook	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 brook	det
16	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drown	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saved	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 saved	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 saved	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saved	aux:pass
21	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 filled	conj
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 fish	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fish	det
24	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saved	obl
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 showed	nsubj
26	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fish	acl:relcl
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 showed	iobj
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 get	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 get	mark
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 showed	ccomp
31	out	out	ADV	_	30 get	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fill	past · passive		my brothers			with envy	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with envy=Instrument
2	leave	past			me			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	drown	to-infinitive				a brook		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	save	past · passive	a fish	I				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
5	show	past	a fish		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	get out	to-infinitive					out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «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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