The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 25
Though fish are generally supposed to be quite mute, he heard them grieving aloud at the prospect of dying in this wretched manner.
Who acts: haste, fishes, prospect · What happens: suppose, be, hear, grieve, die · To what, where: fish, fishes, prospect
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (haste, fishes, prospect), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 supposed | mark |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 supposed | aux:pass |
| 4 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 5 supposed | advmod |
| 5 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 heard | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 mute | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 mute | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 mute | advmod |
| 9 | mute | mute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 supposed | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 supposed | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | obj |
| 14 | grieving | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 heard | xcomp |
| 15 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 14 grieving | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 prospect | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prospect | det |
| 18 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grieving | obl |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 dying | mark |
| 20 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 prospect | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 manner | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 manner | det |
| 23 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 manner | amod |
| 24 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dying | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present · passive | fish | generally property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | mute property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | haste | fishes = fish | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grieve | gerund | fishes = fish not said here | the prospect | aloud property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | die | gerund | the prospect not said here | in this wretched manner | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in manner=Attribute |
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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