Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 100

"I say, good crab, I've taken all the fish away, and put them into a fine large pond.

Who acts: I · What happens: say, take, put · To what, where: good crab, fish, fine large pond · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 crab	punct
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crab	amod
6	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 taken	nsubj
9	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 taken	aux
10	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 say	ccomp
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 fish	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fish	det
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 taken	obj
14	away	away	ADV	_	10 taken	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 put	cc
17	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 put	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	23 pond	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pond	det
21	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pond	amod
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pond	amod
23	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	I	good crab				tree rules
2	take in a quote	present · perfect	I		all fish		away property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fish=Destination
3	put in a quote	infinitive		fish		a fine large pond		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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