The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 2
One day it happened that when the fisherman drew in his net he found in it a remarkable fish, for it was entirely of gold.
Who acts: it, fisherman, net · What happens: happen, draw, find, be · To what, where: net, remarkable fish
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, fisherman, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 drew | mark |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 drew | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fisherman | det |
| 8 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | nsubj |
| 9 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 net | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 net | nmod:poss |
| 12 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 net | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fish | det |
| 18 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fish | amod |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gold | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 gold | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gold | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 gold | cop |
| 24 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 26 gold | advmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 gold | case |
| 26 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | the fisherman | fisherman's net | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in net=Destination | ||||
| 3 | find | past | fisherman | a remarkable fish | net | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic | |||
| 4 | is | past | net | for gold; entirely property | tree rules |
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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