The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 60
And the fish guided him to a shallow place, so that he scrambled out.
Who acts: fish · What happens: guide, scramble out · To what, where: Halfman, shallow place
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 | _ | 4 guided | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 guided | nsubj |
| 4 | guided | guide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 guided | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 8 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 place | amod |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guided | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 scrambled | punct |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 scrambled | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 so | fixed |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 scrambled | nsubj |
| 14 | scrambled | scramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 guided | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 scrambled | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 guided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guide | past | the fish | Halfman | a shallow place | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 2 | scramble out | past | fish | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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