The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 104

‘Last week, when I was fishing, my net suddenly grew very heavy, and when I drew it in I found a great copper vase, fastened with lead.

Who acts: I, net · What happens: fish, grow, draw, find, fasten · To what, where: net, great copper vase

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, net), 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 week	punct
2	Last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 week	amod
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fishing	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 week	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 fishing	advmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 fishing	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fishing	aux
8	fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grew	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 net	nmod:poss
11	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grew	nsubj
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	13 grew	advmod
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fishing	conj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 heavy	advmod
15	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grew	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drew	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 drew	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 drew	nsubj
20	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grew	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 drew	obj
22	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 found	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 found	nsubj
24	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 drew	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 vase	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 vase	amod
27	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 vase	compound
28	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 found	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fastened	punct
30	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 vase	acl
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 lead	case
32	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fastened	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fishing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fish	past · progressive	I		week		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	my net			heavy, suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	draw	past	I	net			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	find	past	I	a great copper vase			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vase=Topic
5	fasten	participle		a great copper vase not said here		with lead	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with lead=Co-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 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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