The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 45

There he stood thinking and wondering what he could do, when all of a sudden he saw three fishes swimming along, and recognised them as the very same whose lives he had saved.

Who acts: youth, all, three fishes · What happens: stand, think, wonder, do, see, swim · To what, where: three fishes, fishes, same lives · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (youth, all, three fishes), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 stood	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stood	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wondering	cc
6	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 thinking	conj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 do	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wondering	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 saw	advmod
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 saw	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 sudden	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sudden	det
16	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 all	nmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 fishes	nummod
20	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 saw	obj
21	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 fishes	acl
22	along	along	ADV	_	21 swimming	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 recognised	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 recognised	cc
25	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 recognised	obj
27	as	as	ADP	_	32 lives	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lives	det
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 same	advmod
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lives	amod
31	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	32 lives	nmod:poss
32	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 recognised	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 saved	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 saved	aux
35	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 lives	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	youth		there		vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	gerund	youth not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund	youth not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do	could	youth				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	see	past	all	three fishes			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus
6	swim	gerund	three fishes not said here			along property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	recognise	past	youth not said here	fishes = fish		as the same lives	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus as life=Attribute
8	save	past · perfect	youth	the same lives not said here			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

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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