The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 107

The sight of the water brought back to his mind the fish whom he had saved from death, and he hastily drew the scale from his pocket.

Who acts: sight, colt · What happens: bring back, save, draw, sight, mind · To what, where: mind, fish, death, scale, pocket, water

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, colt), 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 sight	det
2	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sight	nmod
6	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 brought	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 mind	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mind	nmod:poss
10	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fish	det
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mind	appos
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 saved	nsubj:pass
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saved	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 saved	aux
16	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 fish	acl:relcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 death	case
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saved	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 drew	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drew	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 drew	nsubj
22	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	23 drew	advmod
23	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brought	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 scale	det
25	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drew	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 pocket	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 pocket	nmod:poss
28	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drew	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring back	past	the sight of the water		colt's mind		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to mind=Destination
2	save	past · perfect · passive		the fish	death		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from death=Source
3	draw	past	colt	the scale	colt's pocket	hastily property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent scale=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
4	sight			the water			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	mind		colt				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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