The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 32

‘I’ll be very careful,’ promised the fisher, and threw the fish back into the water.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, promise, throw back · To what, where: fisher, fish, water

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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 careful	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 careful	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 careful	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 careful	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 careful	advmod
6	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 promised	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 promised	punct
9	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 careful	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fisher	det
11	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promised	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 threw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 threw	cc
14	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 promised	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fish	det
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	14 threw	advmod
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 water	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 careful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	future	I		careful property	tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	past		the fisher		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent fisher=Theme
3	throw back	past		the fish	into the water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer fish=Theme into water=Result

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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