The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 39

‘Well,’ said the fish, ‘I see that I am evidently destined to fall into your hands.

Who acts: I · What happens: say, see, destine, fall · To what, where: fish, I, hands · 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 (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	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
11	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 destined	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 destined	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 destined	aux:pass
15	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	16 destined	advmod
16	destined	destine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 see	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 fall	mark
18	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 destined	xcomp
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 hands	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hands	nmod:poss
21	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fall	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the fish		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fish=Topic
2	see	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	destine	present · passive		I	evidently property	tree rules
4	fall	to-infinitive			into your hands result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=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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