The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 48

At last he came to a stream, and as he stopped for a moment to look at it he noticed a little fish lying on the bank, beating its tail convulsively, in a vain effort to get back into the water.

Who acts: servant, little fish · What happens: come, stop, look, notice, lie, beat · To what, where: last, little fish, bank, tail, 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 (servant, little 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 stream	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stream	det
7	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stopped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stopped	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 stopped	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stopped	nsubj
12	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 moment	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 moment	det
15	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stopped	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 look	mark
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 noticed	advcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 look	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 noticed	nsubj
21	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stopped	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fish	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fish	amod
24	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 noticed	obj
25	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 fish	acl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 bank	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bank	det
28	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lying	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 beating	punct
30	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 lying	conj
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 tail	nmod:poss
32	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beating	obj
33	convulsively	convulsively	ADV	_	30 beating	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 effort	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 effort	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 effort	det
37	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 effort	amod
38	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 noticed	parataxis
39	to	to	PART	_	40 get	mark
40	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 effort	acl
41	back	back	ADV	_	40 get	advmod
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 water	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 water	det
44	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 get	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	servant		last		to a stream	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stream=Initial_Location
2	stop	past	servant			moment		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	look	to-infinitive	servant not said here				at stream	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
4	notice	past	servant	a little fish				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus
5	lie	gerund	a little fish not said here		the bank			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
6	beat	gerund	a little fish not said here	bank's tail			convulsively property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Theme
7	get back	to-infinitive	servant not said here		the water			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into water=Destination

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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