The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 46

The middle fish held a mussel in its mouth, which it laid at the young man’s feet, and when he picked it up and opened it, there was the golden ring inside.

Who acts: middle fish, mouth, youth · What happens: hold, lay, pick up, open, be · To what, where: mussel, mouth, feet, golden ring

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 (middle fish, mouth, youth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mussel	det
6	mussel	mussel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mouth	nmod:poss
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laid	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 laid	nsubj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laid	nsubj
13	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mouth	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	19 feet	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 feet	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 man	case
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 laid	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ring	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 was	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 picked	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 picked	nsubj
24	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 was	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 picked	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 picked	compound:prt
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 opened	cc
28	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 picked	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 opened	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 picked	punct
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 was	expl
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 ring	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ring	det
34	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 ring	amod
35	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	conj
36	inside	inside	ADV	_	35 ring	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	past	the middle fish	a mussel	mussel's mouth		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mussel=Theme in mouth=Location
2	lay	past	mussel's mouth		the young man's feet		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at foot=Destination
3	pick up	past	youth	mussel			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	open	past	youth not said here	mussel			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	is a	past	the middle fish not said here	the golden ring		inside property	tree rules

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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