The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 5
As they looked round them with delight, a voice said suddenly: ‘Fish, and see what you will catch.’
Who acts: King, voice, Fish, you · What happens: look, say, see, catch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, voice, Fish, you), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 looked | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 delight | case |
| 7 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 15 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 see | cc |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 catch | obj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 catch | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 catch | aux |
| 22 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 see | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | King | round trees = tree; with delight | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a voice | suddenly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | Fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | catch | future | you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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