The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 3

As he was inspecting it with some surprise, the fish opened its mouth and said: ‘Listen to me, fisher; if you will just throw me back into the water I’ll turn your poor little cottage into a splendid castle.’

Who acts: fisherman, fish, you, I · What happens: inspect, open, say, listen, throw back, 'll · To what, where: net, mouth, fisher, me, water, poor little cottage · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fisherman, fish, you, I), 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	_	4 inspecting	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 inspecting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 inspecting	aux
4	inspecting	inspect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 opened	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 inspecting	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 surprise	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 surprise	det
8	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inspecting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 inspecting	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fish	det
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 opened	nsubj
12	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mouth	nmod:poss
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 opened	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 opened	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Listen	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 Listen	punct
19	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 Listen	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fisher	punct
23	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Listen	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 throw	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 throw	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 throw	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 throw	aux
28	just	just	ADV	_	29 throw	advmod
29	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Listen	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 throw	obj
31	back	back	ADV	_	29 throw	advmod
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 water	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 water	det
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 throw	obl
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 ’ll	nsubj
36	’ll	'll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 water	acl:relcl
37	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 throw	conj
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 cottage	nmod:poss
39	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 cottage	amod
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 cottage	amod
41	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 turn	obj
42	into	into	ADP	_	45 castle	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 castle	det
44	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 castle	amod
45	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 turn	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 Listen	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 Listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	inspect	past · progressive	fisherman	net			with some surprise	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	open	past	the fish	net's mouth				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the fish not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	listen	infinitive		fisher	me			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
5	throw back a condition, not said to happen	future	you	me			into the water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer i=Theme into water=Result
6	'll	present	I	the water not said here				tree rules
7	turn	infinitive	you not said here	your poor little cottage		a splendid castle		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme into castle=Trajectory

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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