The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 6

Now the King had always loved fishing, and never went anywhere without a fish-hook or two in his pocket, so he drew one out hastily, and the Queen lent him her girdle to fasten it to, and it had hardly touched the water before it caught a big fish, which made them an excellent meal--and not before they needed it, for they had found nothing until then but a few wild berries and roots.

Who acts: Fish, Queen, girdle, big fish, King · What happens: love, not go, draw, lend, fasten, touch · To what, where: King, one, girdle, Fish, big fish, meal

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 (Fish, Queen, girdle, big 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 loved	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 loved	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loved	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 loved	advmod
6	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loved	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 went	advmod
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loved	conj
12	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 went	advmod
13	without	without	ADP	_	17 hook	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hook	det
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hook	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 fish	punct
17	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 two	cc
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hook	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 pocket	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 pocket	nmod:poss
22	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 two	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drew	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 drew	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drew	nsubj
26	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loved	parataxis
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 drew	obj
28	out	out	ADV	_	29 hastily	advmod
29	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	27 one	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lent	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 lent	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Queen	det
33	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 lent	nsubj
34	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 drew	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lent	obj
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 girdle	nmod:poss
37	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lent	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 fasten	mark
39	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 lent	advcl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 fasten	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	39 fasten	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 touched	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 touched	cc
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 touched	nsubj:pass
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 touched	aux
46	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	47 touched	advmod
47	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 lent	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 water	det
49	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 touched	obj
50	before	before	SCONJ	_	52 caught	mark
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 caught	nsubj
52	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 touched	advcl
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 fish	det
54	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 fish	amod
55	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 caught	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 made	punct
57	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 made	nsubj
58	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 fish	acl:relcl
59	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 made	obj
60	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 meal	det
61	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 meal	amod
62	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 made	obj
63	--	--	PUNCT	_	68 needed	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 needed	cc
65	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	68 needed	advmod
66	before	before	SCONJ	_	68 needed	mark
67	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 needed	nsubj
68	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 drew	conj
69	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 needed	obj
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 found	punct
71	for	for	SCONJ	_	74 found	mark
72	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 found	nsubj
73	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	74 found	aux
74	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	68 needed	conj
75	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	74 found	obj
76	until	until	ADP	_	77 then	case
77	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	74 found	obl
78	but	but	CCONJ	_	82 berries	cc
79	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	82 berries	det
80	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	82 berries	amod
81	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	82 berries	amod
82	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	74 found	obl
83	and	and	CCONJ	_	84 roots	cc
84	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	82 berries	conj
85	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	love	past · perfect · passive		the King		now	always property	tree rules
2	not go	past					without a fish hook; anywhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	draw	past	Fish	one				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	lend	past	the Queen	Queen's girdle	Fish			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient girdle=Theme
5	fasten	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here	girdle				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	touch	past · perfect · passive		girdle			hardly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer water=Result
7	catch	past	girdle	a big fish				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
8	make	past	a big fish	King				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary meal=Product
9	not need	past	King	meal				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
10	find	past · perfect	King	nothing			a few wild berries and roots obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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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