The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 12

“Then come with me,” said the fish; and turning round he swam up-stream, going very slowly so that Sin should not lose sight of him.

Who acts: fish, Sin · What happens: come, say, turn round, swim, go, not lose · To what, where: stream, sight, fish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, Sin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 come	advmod
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 come	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fish	det
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 turning	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 turning	cc
13	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	parataxis
14	round	round	ADV	_	13 turning	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 swam	nsubj
16	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 turning	ccomp
17	up	up	ADV	_	16 swam	advmod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 up	punct
19	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 swam	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 going	punct
21	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 turning	conj
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 slowly	advmod
23	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	21 going	advmod
24	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 lose	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	Sin	Sin	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 lose	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 lose	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 lose	advmod
29	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 going	xcomp
30	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lose	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sight	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive			then	with the fish = fish	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the fish				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	turn round	gerund				round property	tree rules
4	swim	past	fish	stream			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stream=Trajectory
5	go	gerund				slowly property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not lose	should	Sin	sight of fish			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality
7	sight			fish			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 12

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Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 12