The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 8

They soon found that the fish were not only abundant and easily caught, but also very beautiful, with glittering scales of every imaginable hue; and before long the King discovered that he could teach them to talk and whistle better than any parrot.

Who acts: King, fish · What happens: find, not be, catch, glitter, long, discover · To what, where: scales, King · 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, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 found	advmod
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 abundant	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 abundant	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 abundant	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 abundant	advmod
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 abundant	advmod
10	abundant	abundant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 caught	cc
12	easily	easily	ADV	_	13 caught	advmod
13	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 abundant	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beautiful	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 beautiful	cc
16	also	also	ADV	_	18 beautiful	advmod
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 beautiful	advmod
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 glittering	punct
20	with	with	SCONJ	_	21 glittering	mark
21	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 beautiful	advcl
22	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 glittering	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 hue	case
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 hue	det
25	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hue	amod
26	hue	hue	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 scales	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 long	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 long	cc
29	before	before	ADV	_	30 long	advmod
30	long	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 found	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 King	det
32	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 discovered	nsubj
33	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 long	ccomp
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 teach	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 teach	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 teach	aux
37	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 discovered	advcl
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 teach	iobj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 talk	mark
40	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 teach	xcomp
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 whistle	cc
42	whistle	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 talk	conj
43	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	42 whistle	advmod
44	than	than	ADP	_	46 parrot	case
45	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	46 parrot	det
46	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 better	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	King			soon property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	the fish			abundant property	tree rules
3	catch	participle	the fish not said here			easily property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	glitter	gerund	King not said here	scales of every imaginable hue			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent scale=Theme
5	long	gerund	King not said here			before property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	discover	past	the King				vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	teach speech: other	could	Fish		King		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
8	talk	to-infinitive	Fish not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	whistle	present	Fish not said here			well property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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